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Michael Renner wrote: |
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> Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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>> If we can come up with a seamless, painless transition process, great, |
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>> let's make it happen. |
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> From the _MIRROR_-side using hardlinks should be fine enough, we'd just |
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> have to ensure that every mirror uses -H (preserve hardlinks). And for |
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> the mirrors not using -H this will just result in increased traffic and |
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> diskusage (42GB at the moment, might hurt a bit ;) ). Shouldn't be a |
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> problem though ensuring that every mirror uses -H (and I think they |
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> already do, since we already did hardlink magic when moving old releases |
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> to historical) |
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> I guess the more complicated part will be adapting the ebuild system to |
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> look for/store the files in the new location. |
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Taking the earlier comment ( changing files only on the mirrors ) there |
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are no portage changes that are technically required. However, you'd |
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need to change about 10000 ( random number I pulled out of my ass, but |
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there are many affected ) SRC_URI's to point to the new format, or |
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produce some sort of hack that translates between the two, and I |
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wouldn't be to fond of the latter effort, mostly because it would |
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probably rot in the tree for way too long ;) |
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And you need to modify policy for placing files on the mirrors, but |
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thats not a portage problem either; from the portage POV the change is |
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relatively seamless. |
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> best regards, |
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> Michael |
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