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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:57:06
Message-Id: 200403241203.43336.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory by Brandon Hale
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4 On Wednesday 24 March 2004 01:00, Brandon Hale wrote:
5 > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:55 -0500, Brandon Hale wrote:
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7 > Another note to new developers considering a CVS only approach:
8 > rsync mirrors distribute a partial Portage cache, cvs does not, so you
9 > should be building this yourself via `emerge regen`. If you dont,
10 > things will break in weird ways. Also, I highly advise against using
11 > CVS checkout as a "real" overlay specified in make.conf.. this will
12 > force Portage to rebuild the cache for this tree in addition to the
13 > rsync tree and eat up cpu time needlessly.
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15 Btw. This is exactly the approach I use (with the alias for the inline
16 tree)
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18 Paul
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