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mmacleod@××××××××××.za wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am interested in proposing picking up where GLEP 9 and GLEP 25 left |
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> off and finally getting difference patches for portage distfiles working |
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> properly and implemented in such a way that they can become part of the |
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> official tree. |
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> The proposal would address actual implementation of the above as well as |
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> modifying the various other tools that must use them such as |
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> "distfiles-clean" and portage itself of course. |
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> Would this be worth proposing? I know that I am not the only one who |
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> would be very happy to finally see this make its way properly into Gentoo. |
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> Which source repository should I submit a patch for if I want to propose |
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> this? |
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I just re-read the GLEPs. The first thing that comes to my mind is: Is |
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there still a big use case for smaller downloads with the advance of |
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broadband internet? However, I accept that not everyone has alot of |
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bandwidth available to them and ignore my initial reaction ;) |
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There is a utility created by Brian Ferring (former Gentoo dev, author |
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of GLEP 25) called dev-util/diffball that is used by infra to create the |
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portage daily snapshot patches. |
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http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/deltas/ |
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Can you elaborate on where you envision this idea going? and perhaps |
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some implementation (high level) details that you are interested in |
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pursuing? |
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Thanks, |
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Jeremy |