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Its not only about dialup users either. For example if running gentoo |
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on a production system, you would normally run glsa-check on an hourly |
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basis. If your system is volnerable, you'll normally have to emerge |
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sync first, and with the number of files there, it takes far too long. |
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There has been a lot of discussion about switching away from rsync |
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and/or changing ebuild structure for portage-ng -- but thats mostly |
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gossip and any progress is halted. |
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I do agree that some files really should be removed from the tree, |
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look at this list: |
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find ./ -type f | egrep -v "packages|distfiles" |xargs du | sort -n | tail -n 20 |
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72 ./media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.4499/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4499-2.6-20031014.diff |
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72 ./net-www/apache/files/httpd-2.0.49-ssl_engine_kernel.patch |
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72 ./net-www/apache/files/patches/2.0.49-r1/01_ssl_engine_kernel.patch |
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72 ./sys-devel/binutils/files/2.13/binutils-2.13.90.0.18-ppc64-tls1.patch |
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76 ./app-accessibility/speech-tools/files/1.2.3-gcc3.4.patch |
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76 ./sys-devel/gcc/ChangeLog |
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80 ./media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.5328/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-5328-2.6-20031226.diff |
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80 ./sys-devel/binutils/files/2.14/binutils-2.14.90.0.4-cfi.patch |
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84 ./gnome-base/gnome-session/files/gentoo-splash.png |
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84 ./gnome-base/gnome-session/files/gnome-splash.png |
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84 ./media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.4363/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363-2.5-20030714.diff |
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84 ./media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.4496/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6-20030905.diff |
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84 ./media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.4496/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6-20031026.diff |
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84 ./x11-base/xfree/ChangeLog |
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88 ./mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd.conf |
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92 ./app-emulation/wine/files/wine-alsa.patch |
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92 ./games-emulation/nwwine/files/wine-alsa.patch |
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100 ./media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.5328/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-5328-2.6-20040105.diff |
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120 ./sys-libs/pam/files/pam-0.75-r7-gentoo.tbz2 |
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168 ./licenses/perforce.pdf |
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:38:59 -0700, Bret Towe <magnade@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> while waiting for a rsync on one of my computers i noticed |
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> there are alot of patchs, gzip, and bzip2 files in portage |
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> alot of which i wouldnt think needs to be there |
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> x11-base/xfree/files/ for one example |
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> sys-devel/gcc/files/ for another |
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> im sure there are other places that are just as bad |
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> |
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> find /mdhd/gentoo/gentoo-portage/ -name "*.bz2"|wc -l |
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> 159 |
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> |
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> find /mdhd/gentoo/gentoo-portage/ -name "*.gz"|wc -l |
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> 62 |
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> even with my local lans rsync mirror serving i think 6 computers currently |
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> i dont even use half of those bz2 or gz files and im sure similar goes for |
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> alot of the patchs in the tree |
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> |
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> i seem to recall there is a script or somethin, or was, that checked sizes |
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> of files in the tree perhaps it should be expanded to file types |
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> or better yet watch file counts for files that arent needed |
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> so whatever isnt a ebuild, digest, manifest, or changelog |
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> considering how long it takes to scan the tree as it is |
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> i would think this would help alot |
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> and im sure the dialup users wouldnt mind not downloading |
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> stuff they would never use |
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> |
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> Bret |
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> |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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> |
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