Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Dropping rsync as a tree distribution method

[Georgy Yakovlev]

On Monday, December 17, 2018 9:43:05 AM PST Raymond Jennings wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 9:26 AM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:13 AM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
wrote:
> > > On Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:40:38 PM PST Matt Turner wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:16 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
wrote:
> > > > > - Disk usage for git vs rsync
> > > >
> > > > This is why I have not switched. With git you pull down increasing
> > > > amounts of history, whereas with rsync the data fits easily in a <1GB
> > > > partition.
> > >
> > > Recent portage can use sync-depth = 1
> > > repo dir no longer grows as it used to and it's works fine unlike
> > > initial
> > > implementation that was giving trouble
> > >
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/552814
> > >
> > > du -hs /var/db/repos/gentoo
> > > 350M    /var/db/repos/gentoo
> > >
> > > example /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf :
> > > [DEFAULT]
> > > main-repo = gentoo
> > >
> > > [gentoo]
> > > auto-sync = yes
> > > location = /var/db/repos/gentoo
> > > sync-type = git
> > > sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
> > > sync-depth = 1
> > > sync-git-clone-extra-opts = -b master
> > > sync-git-verify-commit-signature = true
> > >
> > >
> > > sync is almost instantaneous compared to rsync, but some folks not going
> > > to
> > > like github as a mirror in this case.
>
> Would I be correct to say they won't need github if they use infra's
> own native anongit server?
I'm guessing, but probably infra server is not supposed to handle load from 
all the users and will temporarily ban if one tries to sync more than several 
times per day (like rsync master does). But don't quote me on that, better ask 
infra.

>
> > Thanks for the information. That seems to work great!


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Georgy Yakovlev
Gentoo Linux Developer