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Michael Renner wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> as suggested by Mike in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123335, |
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> here's my proposal for changing the layout of the distfiles tree: |
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> Introducing an additional directory hierarchy should fix this, and is |
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> the common solution for this problem for various projects, be it debian |
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> [1], cpan [2], slackware [3], etc. |
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> One migration scenario for a better future: |
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> Create subdirectories named after the first letter of each file and move |
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> the files in their respective directories. |
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> Either sym- or hardlink the files from the current distfiles |
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> root-directory to the specific directory where they reside in. (Check |
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> with the mirror admins first (depending on the chosen linktype) if rsync |
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> hardlink support is enabled or their web/ftp servers allow/follow symlinks) |
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> Adapt the build scripts so that they look for the files in their new |
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> location. |
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> Change the scripts which fetch the files for distfiles so that they save |
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> them under the new location. |
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> Wait a few weeks... (months? years? decades?) until the last user has |
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> updated and/or a clean upgrade-path exists, which doesn't rely on the |
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> old file locations. |
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> Drop the sym/hardlinks. |
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Is this plan for server side only distfiles, or do you want |
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/usr/portage/distfiles/{a-z}/ on the local system as well. If that is |
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the case the answer is probably no. We've been asked in the past to |
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implement a DISTFILES_PREFIX type system which would work in a similar |
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manner, and it really only complicates things. Is there any needed |
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performance benefit out of the current scheme? Can you give some |
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numbers as to how much this will help the average user? |
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I believe the Infrastructure team also doesn't want to change the |
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layout, but I'll leave it up to them to comment on their own policy ;) |
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> best regards, |
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> Michael Renner - admin of gentoo.inode.at/rsync1.at.gentoo.org |
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> [1] http://debian.inode.at/debian/pool/main/ |
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> [2] http://www.slackware.at/data/slackware/slackware/ |
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> [3] http://cpan.inode.at/modules/by-authors/id/ |
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