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Hi all, |
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Quick summary: Improve the performance of the Gentoo Linux mirrors by |
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reducing the overall bandwidth load, allowing people to fetch binary |
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patches from the mirrors, instead of the full source tarballs, when |
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updating some package. This project is partially based on GLEP 25. |
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The project is almost done, from the GSoC PoV. :) I'll keep working |
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with Robin and the other infra guys to optimize the delta generation |
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and deploy this thing works for the end users ASAP. |
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== Progress == |
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- distpatch-0.1 was released and is available on the Portage tree as |
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app-portage/distpatch-0.1. |
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- Got some basic multiprocessing going for the delta generation, with |
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ferringb's help. |
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- Sent portage patch [1] with a test case to gentoo-portage-dev@. Take |
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a look at this thread if you want to see this thing working. |
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== Next steps == |
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- Follow the thread of the portage patch, changing anything needed and |
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publish usage docs if the patch got accepted soon enough. Usage docs |
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are useless if the users can't use it :) |
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- Cut more deltas in vulture. |
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[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/3319 |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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