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hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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> Martin Vaeth: |
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>> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> With rsync I believe you can exclude categories: |
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>>>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync |
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>>> |
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>>> That is uninformed. |
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>> |
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>> I think he is right. |
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>> |
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>>> check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with |
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>>> --depth=1. |
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>> |
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>> Every tag will still contain all categories: |
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>> AFAIK, with git, it is not possible to update everyting but e.g. *access* |
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>> *kde* *i10n* *gnome* if you know that you will never install an |
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>> ebuild from these categories. |
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> |
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> My max DL rate is ~700KiB/s and is the limiting factor. |
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My concern is not the time but the total volume (there are still |
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often limitations involved), and perhaps even more important, |
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the disk usage, especially compared with methods like squashfs(+aufs). |
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It simply is a fact that with git you have to download and store a |
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lot of unnecessary information (if you are not a developer and do |
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not use a heavy system): not only git metadata but also |
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unneeded categories. |
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So for non-developers, downloading with git does not necessarily |
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make sense. |
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That being said, please do not consider this as an argument against |
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a change to git: For developers it has only advantages, and AFAIK, |
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it is not planned to cancel other download methods anyway. |
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