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On 12/09/2012 09:15 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> No, once they are downloaded, they don't change ever after the quarterly |
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> rollover which starts a new updates file. Nor do they take up |
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> significant storage space. They probably take up a higher percentage of |
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> your fs's inodes than % diskspace. |
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> But they do take time to process and verify every time emerge initiates |
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> a fixpackages call after every sync. That will save time more than it |
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> will space. |
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It skips the older files if their timestamp hasn't changed since it was |
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recorded in /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. So, there's minimal overhead from |
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keeping them, unless you lose /var/cache/edb/mtimedb somehow. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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