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On Thursday 14 October 2004 2:49 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:43:11 -0700 Mark Dierolf <mark@×××.com> wrote: |
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> | I've been watching this discussion as far as tree size, and i'm |
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> | suprised nobody has brought the idea of on-demand downloading yet. |
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> Nobody has mentioned it because it has been discussed and dismissed as |
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> unworkable several times before. |
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It's quite workable. Every binary distro does it. From what I can see, Portage |
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devs just don't see as much a benefit since the tree is much smaller than, |
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for example, an entire copy of all binary packages Debian provides. |
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On Thursday 14 October 2004 3:14 pm, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> So you only have to rsync the dependency info. You save maybe 50% |
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> traffic, but need some ebuild servers that will be hit by millions of |
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> small requests for single ebuilds. No thanks. |
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Actually, you don't even need to sync that. Simply download the primary |
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ebuild, read the dep info, download the next one, etc. Most modern versions |
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of file transfer protocols (HTTP and FTP, at least; don't know about rsync) |
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support multiple transfers in a single connection. |
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