From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21458 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 22:44:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Apr 2004 22:44:32 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BDAAK-0006cJ-3l for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:44:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 12503 invoked by uid 50004); 12 Apr 2004 22:44:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13053 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 22:44:31 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:44:26 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040413004426.3365a676@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20040412232637.1d3ba123@sven.genone.homeip.net> References: <200404121739.i3CHdI4L023928@mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net> <200404122146.21981.stuart@gentoo.org> <20040412225850.2f3a5586@sven.genone.homeip.net> <200404122217.33781.stuart@gentoo.org> <20040412232637.1d3ba123@sven.genone.homeip.net> Organization: Gentoo Linux X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: H@&[wkk?l:Zx:8i_5bViK&{Vz{c{~r),^&:v/r#+X5dmfA6qCl)~'Ul{"&06Q1[05.%v&c>je5R{=xLnx^=~lN~rO0xuR~~NY)CX\"Nc4$9CBPwDl-.pYuVeGdir86L@\:j?7@%Ej2?Wi-Y0=1]T14ce0w79Bckk[*ti{;iA"{;I}&E~.msRBsBS)N!CS4Gd|_UR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_44_26_+0200_tqH08jmqz_6/PUuo" X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:7e6c91d1b14dbccceb2f2166522fa0f6 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers X-Archives-Salt: 4175c9b6-5a38-425d-a643-d92ae262e60f X-Archives-Hash: d56cb9cf65722892fce2c72b3229d4f6 --Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_44_26_+0200_tqH08jmqz_6/PUuo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/12/04 Marius Mauch wrote: > On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > On Monday 12 April 2004 21:58, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > > Will Portage function without /var/cache/edb? > > > > > > Yes, but it will be _very_ slow. > > > > > > Marius > > > > Then we shouldn't be putting this in /var/cache. It's for temporary > > files, and can be emptied at any time without warning. This should > > really go into /var/db. > > I don't understand you here: The cache files are temporary, they can > be removed at any time and will be regenerated when portage accesses > the ebuild, just the first run will be very slow (I could give you > numbers if I wouldn't run a world update atm). For the records: # rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep # time emerge -epv system real 0m57.258s user 0m36.897s sys 0m8.694s # time emerge -epv system real 0m8.785s user 0m6.244s sys 0m0.733s That's on a Athlon XP 2600+ with no other resource-intensive processes running. The slower your box the worse it gets. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. --Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_44_26_+0200_tqH08jmqz_6/PUuo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAexvOWzrL1pM7SNcRAs6aAJ9c/ud1mxq21TLBDXbyjAyB8Rsc1wCfWn/8 sZPtx7PNjuxsFSEbzOwKIpQ= =G5ae -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_44_26_+0200_tqH08jmqz_6/PUuo--