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On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:46:28AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 18-01-2008 01:21:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > > If a transition period would be available, I could make Portage |
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> > > alarm users to fix the SYNC variable to reflect the new URL. I also |
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> > > need to add/fix/change Portage's support for this new URL scheme. |
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> > You're syncing directly from overlays SVN-HTTP? I hope not with the sync |
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> > frequency of some of the other users out there. |
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> I have no other option, do I? I requested rsync in some bug a while ago |
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> with one of the reasons to reduce overlays' load. |
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Not really doable at the moment (but after some of the other pending |
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infra stuff, it is up for handling). |
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> > As you support SVN already, you should just need to change the URL |
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> > (since you are just handing it to SVN), and run svn switch. But ok, I'll |
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> > give you 30 days for /repositories/alt/ once the new overlays box has |
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> > SVN. (Combined with a suitably large warning in the SVN browse view). |
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> The problem is that emerge --sync obfuscates that SVN is being used |
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> underneath. Some (most?) users will not have a clue they are using SVN. |
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How about rolling out a prefix-portage update that just kicks them into |
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updating it? |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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