Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: New idea: network eclean

[Dmitry Bashkatov]

2010/3/22 Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com>:
> Dmitry: I was not misleading you, (I think you meant misunderstood), and
> yes I was interested in your script.
Yes, sorry, my english is bad for now. =)

> I am interested in working with you if you would like to work on it, in
> a way that would be integrated with the current python code base.
I love gentoo and I want to contribute in any way. Thanks for your offer.

But I aimed to participate in gsoc. Now I am diving in to program
projects, so have not any free time. If you want I can help you later.
It will be useful experience for me.

> I found that your script along with Nirbheek's idea of running eclean on
> each machine and then finding the common files, is a poor, although
> simple way of doing it.  The reason I think it is poor is that since the
> distfiles are NFS shared, and that each instance of eclean accesses
> those files, it's an unnecessary use of resources for files that are
> largely common to all/nearly all systems. The other thing is that a
> large part of the search for files to clean means accessing the portage
> tree to obtain the source file names for installed packages by using
> portage function calls.  The tree is also most likely being shared,
> which again unnecessarily uses resources for those pkgs and versions in
> common.  Now imagine an install with 100 clients using the same
> distfiles and portage tree server all doing that for 1,000 installed
> ebuilds.  It would be a tremendous waste of resources, not to mention a
> huge increase in run time.
Totally agree with you!

> If someone has a small, yet large enough system
> that could be used for proper testing ( -p, --pretend mode of course)
> also speak up.
I have such system and interested in testing.