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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Dropping rsync as a tree distribution method
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:03:08
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_psFqCzkPD7BuFKvtO9UmPA3zNCP-6PFDZK8ROvAc=Jng@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Dropping rsync as a tree distribution method by Georgy Yakovlev
1 My assumption here is that infra is the one hosting anongit.gentoo.org
2
3 On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 7:57 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > On Monday, December 17, 2018 9:43:05 AM PST Raymond Jennings wrote:
6 > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 9:26 AM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
7 > > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:13 AM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
8 > wrote:
9 > > > > On Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:40:38 PM PST Matt Turner wrote:
10 > > > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:16 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
11 > wrote:
12 > > > > > > - Disk usage for git vs rsync
13 > > > > >
14 > > > > > This is why I have not switched. With git you pull down increasing
15 > > > > > amounts of history, whereas with rsync the data fits easily in a <1GB
16 > > > > > partition.
17 > > > >
18 > > > > Recent portage can use sync-depth = 1
19 > > > > repo dir no longer grows as it used to and it's works fine unlike
20 > > > > initial
21 > > > > implementation that was giving trouble
22 > > > >
23 > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/552814
24 > > > >
25 > > > > du -hs /var/db/repos/gentoo
26 > > > > 350M /var/db/repos/gentoo
27 > > > >
28 > > > > example /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf :
29 > > > > [DEFAULT]
30 > > > > main-repo = gentoo
31 > > > >
32 > > > > [gentoo]
33 > > > > auto-sync = yes
34 > > > > location = /var/db/repos/gentoo
35 > > > > sync-type = git
36 > > > > sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
37 > > > > sync-depth = 1
38 > > > > sync-git-clone-extra-opts = -b master
39 > > > > sync-git-verify-commit-signature = true
40 > > > >
41 > > > >
42 > > > > sync is almost instantaneous compared to rsync, but some folks not going
43 > > > > to
44 > > > > like github as a mirror in this case.
45 > >
46 > > Would I be correct to say they won't need github if they use infra's
47 > > own native anongit server?
48 > I'm guessing, but probably infra server is not supposed to handle load from
49 > all the users and will temporarily ban if one tries to sync more than several
50 > times per day (like rsync master does). But don't quote me on that, better ask
51 > infra.
52 >
53 > >
54 > > > Thanks for the information. That seems to work great!
55 >
56 >
57 > --
58 > Georgy Yakovlev
59 > Gentoo Linux Developer