Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] rsync metadata cache patch (obsoletes metadata transfer on sync)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:47:32
Message-Id: 43B894B3.3050808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] rsync metadata cache patch (obsoletes metadata transfer on sync) by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > I was playing with the metadata cache stuff this weekend and decided to
3 > write a patch that obsoletes metadata transfers on sync. Simply apply
4 > this patch to portage-2.1_preX and add "metadb" to FEATURES in
5 > make.conf. Side note: this feature should resolve bug 90518.
6
7 May I have the honor of bearing your children? Seriously, this is nice. Why
8 hasn't this been done before? I'm nowhere near an expert on the portage
9 internals, but this looks like it was pretty "easy".
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