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On 06/01/2010 02:22 PM, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> As for zacs tool to try and generate new views of a repository via |
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> hardlinking/recreating the tree... frankly it's a bit of a hack. Via |
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> DEFAULT_URI and relying on the hash, you can make a stable repository that |
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> is able to be updated in place without corrupting ongoing downloads- simply |
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> put, new additions to the repo don't perturb current DL's since the md5 is |
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> the same (hash collision chance is low enough that I don't care about it |
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> here). |
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When you say "hash collision" are you talking about |
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http://crosbug.com/3225? Maybe that behavior is acceptable for |
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small-scale private use, but for large scale public repositories I'd |
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say it's totally unacceptable. Eventually, I'd like to see gentoo |
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officially distributing binary packages, so that we'll be able to |
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get a slice of the binary distribution pie. When that happens, we're |
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certainly not going to want to have race conditions like these in |
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our public binhosts. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |