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Hi, everyone. |
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I'd like to ask Gentoo repository owners to switch off Mercurial |
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and remove all Mercurial repositories from repositories.xml. There are |
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two reasons for that: |
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1. Portage does not support syncing from Mercurial repos, and needs to |
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use external tools (e.g. layman) for that. |
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2. Mercurial is buggy and maintaining support for those repos is PITA. |
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If you noticed that Gentoo repository mirrors did not update for 10 |
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hours a few days ago -- Mercurial was the reason. It is very fragile, |
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and if some server chokes during sync, it hangs the whole process until |
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somebody (which means me) kills it. And it's not the first time it |
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killed the whole system. |
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Yes, I could add process timeouts. But small timeouts are going to |
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break the occasional necessity of cloning big repos, and big timeouts |
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are going to make little difference when Mercurial starts hanging again. |
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If someone really cares about this horrible piece of software, I'd |
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appreciate patches (preferably going upstream) to make it timeout sanely |
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when something hangs. Otherwise, I'd like to announce discontinuation |
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of Mercurial support soon. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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