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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:39:13
Message-Id: 20180703153905.GA21506@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync? by Brian Dolbec
1 On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 08:32:55AM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2 > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:22:35 -0500
3 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > All,
6 > >
7 > > Mostly because of the recent "trustless infrastructure" thread, I am
8 > > wondering why we are still distributing the portage tree primarily
9 > > via rsync instead of git?
10 > >
11 > > Can someone educate me on that, and is it worth considering moving
12 > > away from rsync distribution?
13 > >
14 > > Thanks,
15 > >
16 > > William
17 > >
18 >
19 > because:
20 >
21 > 1) it is still the most bandwidth economical means of distributing the
22 > tree
23
24 Even more so than http or https?
25
26 Thanks,
27
28 William

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