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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync speed and space taken
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:46:44
Message-Id: 200410111946.41495.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync speed and space taken by Ned Ludd
1 On Monday 11 October 2004 18:14, Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 01:19, Brian Jackson wrote:
3 > [snip]
4 >
5 > > E. If you really want to do some good, write a patch for repoman to kick
6 > > people in the "jimmy jammy" when they try to commit big files.
7 >
8 > A few revisions back ferringb added support for this per a request.
9 > repoman --pretend scan shows file sizes. (check it out in the binutils
10 > dir) It's non fatal and will probably remain that will till >=2.0.52 but
11 > after then no patch >=20k can go in the tree and we wont be able to
12 > commit on a dir unless it's cleaned up.
13
14 Please also add a check for bzipped gzipped files. CVS doesn't play nice with
15 them, and neither does rsync. Those shouldn't be in the tree (except for the
16 rescue portage)
17
18 Paul
19
20 --
21 Paul de Vrieze
22 Gentoo Developer
23 Mail: pauldv@g.o
24 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync speed and space taken Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>