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On 11/01/2014 22:44, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [14-01-11 21:16]: |
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>> On 11/01/2014 22:04, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> suppose I would do an eix-sync on two different computers of different |
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>>> platforms -- say AMR and an ordinary PC. |
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>>> Are the downloaded data identical? |
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>> the portage tree is identical everywhere |
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>> the overlays that layman uses are identical everywhere, but possibly not |
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>> identical between your two hosts. I can easily imagine you have |
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>> different overlays between them, and no guarantee they will always be |
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>> the same. |
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>> I consider your question to be fragile and possibly quite dangerous. |
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>> What are you trying to accomplish? |
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>> -- |
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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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> Hi Alan, |
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> thanks for your reply. |
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> I want to lower the load on the official gentoo server(s). |
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> When the log of an eix-sync process is printed on the console, it is |
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> said, that it is *suggested* (hrrm), to only sinc once a day. Since |
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> the ARM and the PC both use the same DSL line, both syncs are seen by |
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> the gentoo server(s) as it came from the same IP (the one of my ISP). |
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> In the worst case, one could be blacklisted...which I dont want to be. |
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I wouldn't worry about that at all. |
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Gentoo infra is vastly more resilient than that, and there are several |
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official hosts in some sort of cluster arrangement. I have minimally 4 |
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gentoo hosts here at home and many many times I've run --sync |
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simultaneously on all of them 5-10 times a day, with not a peep out of |
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infra. I don't do this deliberately, sometimes I forget just how |
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powerful clusterssh can be :-) |
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Plus our ftp server at work is a mirror for all of ZA with no special |
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permissions, it syncs every hour. |
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The message in --sync is, I believe, a holdover from long long ago that |
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hasn't been valid for years. But it's left to discourage abuse. What you |
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are doing is not abuse, it's normal activity. Many of us here have |
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multiple gentoo installs. |
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If you want to reduce the data downloaded, then by all means configure |
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rsyncd to share the tree on the PC, and point the ARM to that. Don't |
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worry about overlays, the amount of changed data from them is usually |
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too small to worry about. |
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> Especially with the ARM I need to sync once a day, since I have to |
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> limit the amount of software to be recompiled/updated after each sync |
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> since the ARM is not *that* fast (for example a kernel compilation |
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> take ~8h). Ah, by the way: I quit crosscompilation, distcc and |
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> such... Both successfully screwed up my gentoos on the ARM. |
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> t regards, |
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> mcc |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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