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Philippe Lafoucrière said: |
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> That's the idea. If you look at debian package system (I know, it's far |
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> different, but ideas can be used on both projects), an update will |
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> only fetch the "cache", and then, package en demand (using apt-get |
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> install) |
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For someone like me using mysql-based cache rather then portage's default |
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cache, how will that figure? |
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> There are too many files to consider now in portage. At start, portage |
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> had just a few hundred of files, and rsync was doing its job quite well. |
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> Now portage has more than 80 000 files. Rsync has to consider all of |
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> them, and it's *REALLY* too long + painfull (my laptop is almost |
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> unusable during rsyncing). Sound like a "select * from table" on a test |
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> server with 15 test clients => will break in production environnement |
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> with thousands of clients. |
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I have a 900mhz celeron (copermine), and maybe its the love-sources and |
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~x86 packages, but ive still been able to do crazy things like talk on |
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irc, have firefox open, update some programs, all while 'emerge sync'-ing |
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without too much preformance lost* (now if i forget to turn off |
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seti@××××××××.then my computer will simply lockup untill i can get to a |
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tty). You might want to check out if theres something with your laptop, if |
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these extremly long times happen with other equpiment. |
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* I should mention i emerge sync every one or two days. |
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Joe Booker |
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