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From: "Julien Allanos (dju`)" <dju@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:46:15
Message-Id: 200512270843.38398.dju@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46) by Dan Meltzer
1 Le Mardi 27 Décembre 2005 02:52, Dan Meltzer a écrit :
2 > On 12/26/05, Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 08:12:03PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
4 > > > On 12/26/05, Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:59 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 > > > > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:45:00 +0100 Stefan Schweizer
7 > > > > >
8 > > > > > <genstef@g.o> wrote:
9 > > > > > | That will increase the sync time for all of our users - can we
10 > > > > > | please keep this info out of the sync-tree?
11 > > > > >
12 > > > > > Learn to use the rsync exclude list.
13 > > > >
14 > > > > I think the point was that the 'average' user needs to pull it as
15 > > > > well and has _no_ use for it.
16 > > > >
17 > > > > There are already complaints about syncs taking to long.
18 > > >
19 > > > The complaints was about the cache, not about the actual sync time
20 > >
21 > > Complaints about both actually- try sync'ing on a crap connection.
22 > > Rsync doesn't scale well the larger the dataset gets (the fact it
23 > > still performs well is a testament to it being mostly a damn fine
24 > > tool). We've got at least a 2.4mB overhead just for doing
25 > > filelist/chksum transfers; that's not getting into pulling the
26 > > _actual_ updates.
27 > >
28 > > > This is what, maybe the equivilent of a new ebuild once, and a -rX any
29 > > > time somethings changed? It won't effect much at all and end up being
30 > > > a lot more helpful (and quickly implemented) than waiting around for
31 > > > someone to write a web database and pushing that through.
32 > >
33 > > Quicker balanced against proper; debate right now is if it's the
34 > > proper place to do this (thus address that concern) :)
35 > >
36 > > > We have metadata.xml's, why not use them?
37 > >
38 > > We have ebuilds, why don't we stick it there? Arguement doesn't work
39 > > well there ;)
40 >
41 > Because its package specific, not version specific :)
42
43 Are the $HOMEPAGE, $DESCRIPTION, $LICENSE or even $SRC_URI package or version
44 specific then?
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46 Julien Allanos (dju`)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46) Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>