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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:57:49
Message-Id: 20140117165708.25082.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > > > What do you think?
3 > >
4 > > Excellent. I think it could quickly become the prefered protage
5 > > storage format, although a loopback mount is needed.
6 >
7 > You can use sys-fs/squashfuse :).
8 >
9 > Though honestly I'd prefer if portage was able to take squashfs image
10 > path in repos.conf and mount it locally for build-time. This will have
11 > the extra advantage that we wouldn't have to worry about remounting it
12 > after sync.
13
14 Or read it directly without mounting.
15
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17 //Peter