Re: [gentoo-dev] Time-and-bandwidth-saving script

[Josh Glover]

Quoth Timo Lindemann (Thu 2004-06-03 10:41:17AM +0200):

> rob@××××××××.uk wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:28:01AM +0200, Timo Lindemann wrote:
> >
> >[getexcludes script]
> >What happens when you'd like to install new software? (thats a loaded
> >question).
> >
> knew it would come and I forgot that:
> in that case, you do
> rm -f /etc/portage/rsync_excludes; emerge sync
> and it is all set.
> You can recalc your excludefile for updates-only retrieval by reinvoking
> the script again.

Timo,

I think your idea is very good, but why reinvent the wheel? Forums user
NickDaFish came up with a neat little Python script called prlock:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55031&highlight=prlock

I made a slight change to make it a little more chatty:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1207788#1207788

And I have also requested that it be included in app-portage/gentoolkit:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47715

Gentoolkit maintainer(s), what think ye?

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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