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On 08/08/2012 11:35 AM, W-Mark Kubacki wrote: |
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> Hi Portage devs, |
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> Can I send patches by `git send-email` or do you prefer attachments? |
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Either way is fine. |
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> The patch applies to master/HEAD and can be backported to 2.1*. Its |
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> description is as follows: |
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> Portage writes a compressed copy of 'Packages' index file. |
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> This behaviour is enabled by FEATURES="compress-index". The |
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> resulting file is 'Packages.gz' and its modification time will |
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> match that of 'Packages'. |
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> Web-servers use that copy to avoid repeated on-the-fly compression. |
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> In order to re-use 'atomic_ofstream' usage of 'codecs.zlib_codec' |
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> has been considered and discarded, because 'GzipFile' yields |
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> smaller files. (According to Mark's tests 62% smaller.) |
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> Example usage, Nginx: |
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> location =/Packages { |
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> gzip_static on; |
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> default_type text/plain; |
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> } |
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> Apache httpd (use with caution): |
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> RewriteRule ^(.*)/Packages$ $1/Packages.gz |
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> [T=text/plain,E=GZIP:gzip,L] |
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> <FilesMatch "Packages\.gz$"> |
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> Header set Content-Encoding gzip |
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> </FilesMatch> |
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Thanks, I've applied your patch: |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=11c0619c63b54346ee5c67cd67ab1ccb24f5f947 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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