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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Toralf Förster" <toralf@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 09:34:42
Message-Id: 257e8525-59a2-86ca-d767-151a1ba34c17@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support by "Toralf Förster"
1 On 07/08/2018 02:28 AM, Toralf Förster wrote:
2 > On 07/08/2018 08:08 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> Please review.
4 >>
5 >> Title: Portage rsync hardlink support
6 >> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
7 >> Posted: 2018-07-11
8 >> Revision: 1
9 >> News-Item-Format: 2.0
10 >> Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage
11 >> IMO there's another heads-up for users having an unsual configuration:
12 >
13 > So we do speak about files under /usr/portage itself and not about that
14 > dir (==changing its inode number), right?
15 >
16 > B/c  otherwise there's another heads-up for people bind-mounting
17 > /usr/portage onto chrooted images.
18
19 This case will continue to work because the download happens in a
20 subdirectory, and after it's verified we call rsync again to apply the
21 changes to the top-level directory.
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac

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