Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
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 05:39:41
Message-Id: 43B8BCFF.4000102@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] rsync metadata cache patch (obsoletes metadata transfer on sync) by Andrew Gaffney
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4 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
5 | Why hasn't this been done before? I'm nowhere near an expert on the
6 | portage internals, but this looks like it was pretty "easy".
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8 Well, the cache related code has had a lot of changes lately due to Brian's cache backport and the addition of EAPI. Cleanup related to those probably made my patch easier to do.
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10 One funny thing is that the metadb and metadbmodule properties of the portdbapi class already existed, but weren't being used for anything yet. After writing that test script and seeing how the cache validation worked, the feasibility of the patch became clear to me.
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12 Zac
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