Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Bart Van Kerkhove <overige.vk@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Re: Re: requirements for a more stable portage tree
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:55:04
Message-Id: 32790.10.97.1.34.1077731680.squirrel@127.0.0.1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Re: Re: requirements for a more stable portage tree by Ashley McKenzie
1 I've tried it too and it took over 5 hours to build the database on my
2 pentium1 :-D
3 on my XP2500 it took less than a minute (-:
4
5 FrostFire
6
7 >
8 > If you run /usr/sbin/esync (which is included with the esearch package),
9 > it will
10 > perform an 'emerge sync' followed by an 'eupdatedb'..
11 >
12 > Also, it will print to stdout in a nice format the new ebuilds from the
13 > 'emerge
14 > sync'
15 >
16 > :)
17 >
18 > On 24/02/04, Jerry McBride wrote:
19 >> To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
20 >> From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
21 >> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:34:03 -0500
22 >> Subject: [gentoo-server] Re: Re: Re: requirements for a more stable
23 >> portage tree
24 >>
25 >> Ruben Vandille wrote:
26 >>
27 >> > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 04:46, Jerry McBride wrote:
28 >> >> > There are some plusses to having the database backend: Centralized
29 >> >> > tree, and fast queries. Downside: Extra complexity, and how often
30 >> do
31 >> >> > you need to query the tree anyway?
32 >> >> >
33 >> >>
34 >> >> I like Linux and I love Gentoo's wide selection of applications. I'm
35 >> >> constantly poking around the portage tree... :')
36 >> >
37 >> > emerge esearch
38 >> > and run "eupdatedb" after you've synced
39 >> >
40 >> > It's not THE solution, but I like/use it verry much
41 >> >
42 >> > R.
43 >>
44 >> Yes, an excellent search engine. The only hitch is updating the
45 >> database...
46 >> but then again, if cron is doing the work when I'm asleep... who cares.
47 >> :')
48 >>
49 >> Cheers.
50 >>
51 >>
52 >> --
53 >>
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60 >> 6:55pm up 9 days, 7:29, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.09
61 >>
62 >