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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 ahead of schedule. |
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== Progress == |
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This week I did the script to generate deltas for all the available |
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packages in gentoo-x86 tree, as needed. Actually, I added a --all |
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option to distdiffer.py. When I started writing the script I realized |
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that isn't worth to create another script, and just patched |
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distdiffer. It's working ok in my quick tests. I'm still improving the |
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error hanfling and planning how is the best way to deal with malformed |
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deltas by default. |
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== Next steps == |
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Next week I'll finally do the big run I was planning for last week. |
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This should take really long as we have more than 14k packages in tree |
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IIRC. I'll be monitoring the test and improving the error handling as |
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needed. |
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Best regards, |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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