Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@×××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-ng concurse entry Was: Updated Portage project page
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:00:39
Message-Id: 200312072059.53553.lafou@wanadoo.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-ng concurse entry Was: Updated Portage project page by Daniel Robbins
1 On Saturday 06 December 2003 20:35, Daniel Robbins wrote:
2 > If by "caching" you mean the metadata cache, this is something I want to
3 > eliminate in portage-ng. I would like things to be designed to be fast
4 > from the start, with no slow bash<->python linkage like there is in the
5 > current portage that makes us require a metadata cache for decent
6 > performance.
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8 If you use a backend db using sqllite, you just have 1 file representing your
9 DB, and so, your portage tree. Then you can send this file through rsync.
10 Another DB file should be used to manage installed package. an emerge -UDp
11 world should just look in the installed DB for packages, and then compare
12 status in portage db. Maybe an idea...
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