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I filed a bug on this suggestion myself recently, here: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/671174 |
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The commentary there from the others may prove useful in this conversation. |
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 9:18 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:13 AM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:40:38 PM PST Matt Turner wrote: |
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>> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:16 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > > - Disk usage for git vs rsync |
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>> > This is why I have not switched. With git you pull down increasing |
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>> > amounts of history, whereas with rsync the data fits easily in a <1GB |
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>> > partition. |
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>> Recent portage can use sync-depth = 1 |
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>> repo dir no longer grows as it used to and it's works fine unlike initial |
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>> implementation that was giving trouble |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/552814 |
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>> du -hs /var/db/repos/gentoo |
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>> 350M /var/db/repos/gentoo |
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>> example /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf : |
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>> [DEFAULT] |
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>> main-repo = gentoo |
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>> [gentoo] |
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>> auto-sync = yes |
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>> location = /var/db/repos/gentoo |
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>> sync-type = git |
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>> sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git |
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>> sync-depth = 1 |
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>> sync-git-clone-extra-opts = -b master |
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>> sync-git-verify-commit-signature = true |
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>> sync is almost instantaneous compared to rsync, but some folks not going to |
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>> like github as a mirror in this case. |
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> I don't plan on using github for the mirror, so I'm not overly worried about that portion. |
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> +Zac Medico |
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> My recollection was that git doesn't ship with ebuild metadata by default, so even if we make the first sync fast (by using depth=1 in the clone) do we have a good story for ebuild metadata? Is portage just faster than in the past for ebuilds with missing metadata? Does emerge --sync handle metadata regen for syncs with git origins? |
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> -A |
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>> -- |
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>> Georgy Yakovlev |
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>> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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