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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:57 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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>>>I kind of like this idea, however, I think it's idealistic. Patches need |
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>>>to be modified very frequently. Especially when we combine multiple |
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>>>patches and make them all work with USE flags. |
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>>> |
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>>>A great deal of our patches really are written specifically work with our |
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>>>ebuilds. |
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>>> |
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>>>What is the real percentage of space usage from compressed or uncompressed |
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>>>patches? How big of a problem is it? |
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>>> |
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>>Also the problem is that especially if you have a rapid changing |
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>>package, where the patches changes a lot, putting it in distfiles is a |
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>>pita, as you have to scp it, then wait an hour to 3 depending on how |
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>>lucky you are, and then only commit. And especially if you forgetful |
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>>like me, you tend to forget to either come back and commit the new |
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>>version/revision, or to copy the new tarball to distfiles ... |
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> This was why we were asking for a "packages.gentoo.org" that could |
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> either be a single or multiple machines. It could even replace |
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> the /space/distfiles-local, as everything from it could be pushed out to |
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> be synched to distfiles. This would make them immediately available, |
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> and would alleviate the problem. Once the main distfiles mirrors got |
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> the files, they could be deleted from packages.gentoo.org |
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You mean patches.gentoo.org. Yes, ideally this is something we need to setup. I |
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recall having this topic a few months back, but I forgot where it left off. |
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Right now dev.g.o is a single point of failure. If it dies, everything you host |
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there dies. |
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