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On 08/01/2012 04:32 PM, Mark Kubacki wrote: |
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> Hi Portage devs, |
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> The attached patches fix some issues I've noticed as maintainer and |
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> user of Gentoo binhost(s). They're made against master/HEAD and can |
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> easily be backported to 2.1*. |
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> The first patch enables Portage to skip downloading a remote index if |
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> the local copy is recent enough. E.g., the remote index didn't change |
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> between to "emerge"-runs. This is done by setting "If-Modified-Since" |
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> request-header. The server responds with HTTP code 304 and Portage |
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> doesn't even load a single byte of the (large) index file. |
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> |
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> By the second patch Portage will download remote indices—which are |
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> text-files after all—compressed, if the remote server supports that. |
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> Although de-compression introduces a small latency, this will save |
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> bandwidth and transmission time. If the index needs to be fetched at |
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> all, that is (see the patch above). |
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> An index' TIMESTAMP entry is set before the corresponding file gets |
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> written. If the difference between TIMESTAMP and modification time |
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> ("mtime") is greater than or the times span one second, remote index |
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> files will be loaded despite the "If-Modified-Since" header. This is |
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> because TIMESTAMP of the local copy is compared with the remote index' |
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> "mtime". The third patch fixes that by setting "mtime" = TIMESTAMP. |
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Thanks, I've applied your patches: |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=e06cb6d66db37ac7ab77acf65038b1f770c13c96 |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=cbebf76d8e5666aad4984f87c2be83d474fe5a7e |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=13abe0398fbe724218c8c9ac2597ebe15d7db7e1 |
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I made a few trivial change in order to make them compatible with |
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python3. Also, I made it use the old behavior for protocols other than |
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http and https, in order to avoid issues with ftp like this one: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415579 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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