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From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:42:01
Message-Id: 20150119184152.GA17857@oregano.analog.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about by Patrick Lauer
1 On 2015-01-19 07:28, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > On 01/19/15 17:47, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:35:09 +0800
4 > > Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > >> * AutoRepoman catches on average maybe 2 user-visible breakages.
7 > >> Mostly removing stable on HPPA ;)
8 > >> Fix: Make repoman faster (tree-wide scans take ~2 CPU-hours)
9 > >> Fix: Remind people that using repoman is not optional
10 > >
11 > > repoman doesn't check reverse dependencies for the package you're
12 > > working on.
13 >
14 > If it were fast enough we could do that.
15 >
16 > pcheck from pkgcore was at one point down to under 3 minutes for a full
17 > tree scan, that's pretty much "fast enough" so that people could run it
18 > on almost every ebuild removal. repoman takes around 30 minutes when
19 > parallelized, on the fastest hardware I currently have access to. Or
20 > about 2 CPU-hours with a single thread ... that's prohibitively slow.
21
22 I'd be interested to hear if pcheck has regressed significantly at all
23 for you when running it now on a similar set up.
24
25 Thanks,
26 Tim