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W. Trevor King posted on Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:33:46 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:29:44PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: |
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>> I don't see any benefit to using rsync vs. a shallow clone as the |
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>> transmission protocol. |
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> Other than the fact that before you dropped it you'd need to push a |
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> ‘emerge sync’ that could handle either rsync or Git, stabilize that |
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> Portage, and then wait for folks to adopt it. |
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Portage already handles it. =:^) |
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Quoting from the emerge (1) manpage (listed as v2.2.12, dated Mar 2014): |
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--sync |
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Updates repositories, for which sync-type and sync-uri |
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attributes are set in repos.conf. See portage(5) for more |
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information. |
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Then in the portage (5) manpage: |
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repos.conf |
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Specifies site-specific repository configuration information. |
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Configuration specified in repos.conf can be overriden by |
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PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES environmental variable, which has the |
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same format as repos.conf. |
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Attributes supported in sections of repositories: |
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sync-type |
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Specifies type of synchronization performed by `emerge |
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--sync`. Valid non-empty values: cvs, git, rsync |
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This attribute can be set to empty value to disable |
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synchronization of given repository. Empty value is |
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default. |
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sync-uri |
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Specifies URI of repository used for synchronization |
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performed by `emerge --sync`. This attribute can be |
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set to empty value to disable synchronization of given |
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repository. Empty value is default. |
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Syntax: |
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cvs: [cvs://]:access_method:[username@]hostname[:port]:/path |
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git: (git|git+ssh|http|https)://[username@]hostname[:port]/path |
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rsync: (rsync|ssh)://[username@]hostname[:port]/(module|path) |
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So portage already handles it. =:^) |
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Tho it's possible there are still bugs as surely that doesn't have the |
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extremely broad long-term testing that rsync does, and I'm ~arch of |
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course and don't know if that's stable, yet. But it's there. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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