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From: Michael Renner <robe@××××××.at>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:30:03
Message-Id: 440C70CD.9000000@amd.co.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles by Kurt Lieber
1 Kurt Lieber wrote:
2
3 > If we can come up with a seamless, painless transition process, great,
4 > let's make it happen.
5
6 From the _MIRROR_-side using hardlinks should be fine enough, we'd just
7 have to ensure that every mirror uses -H (preserve hardlinks). And for
8 the mirrors not using -H this will just result in increased traffic and
9 diskusage (42GB at the moment, might hurt a bit ;) ). Shouldn't be a
10 problem though ensuring that every mirror uses -H (and I think they
11 already do, since we already did hardlink magic when moving old releases
12 to historical)
13
14 I guess the more complicated part will be adapting the ebuild system to
15 look for/store the files in the new location.
16
17 best regards,
18 Michael
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>