From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9421 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 16:30:35 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 16:30:35 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CI8Uq-00035u-Jt for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:30:33 +0000 Received: (qmail 165 invoked by uid 89); 14 Oct 2004 16:30:31 +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 9599 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 16:30:31 +0000 From: Luke-Jr To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:30:29 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20041012223725.6c42698a@snowdrop.home> <200410140743.12045.mark@3e0.com> <20041014154917.3c71d7bc@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20041014154917.3c71d7bc@snowdrop.home> IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5135392.6YqKPB0jRP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410141630.32933.luke-jr@utopios.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few modest suggestions regarding tree size X-Archives-Salt: e2355e2d-a595-46d9-9ca0-705f23318fd0 X-Archives-Hash: f7d1e133870dfba9865c60aa2a29097b --nextPart5135392.6YqKPB0jRP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 October 2004 2:49 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:43:11 -0700 Mark Dierolf wrote: > | I've been watching this discussion as far as tree size, and i'm > | suprised nobody has brought the idea of on-demand downloading yet. > > Nobody has mentioned it because it has been discussed and dismissed as > unworkable several times before. It's quite workable. Every binary distro does it. From what I can see, Port= age=20 devs just don't see as much a benefit since the tree is much smaller than,= =20 for example, an entire copy of all binary packages Debian provides. On Thursday 14 October 2004 3:14 pm, Patrick Lauer wrote: > So you only have to rsync the dependency info. You save maybe 50% > traffic, but need some ebuild servers that will be hit by millions of > small requests for single ebuilds. No thanks. Actually, you don't even need to sync that. Simply download the primary=20 ebuild, read the dep info, download the next one, etc. Most modern versions= =20 of file transfer protocols (HTTP and FTP, at least; don't know about rsync)= =20 support multiple transfers in a single connection. =2D-=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ --nextPart5135392.6YqKPB0jRP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBbqmoZl/BHdU+lYMRApNwAJ4wvVTZ7CcnmAB92dvM6teBKGeUgwCaA833 fHKNYx6aZ9dvRjtKlM8nZwA= =/Dzl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5135392.6YqKPB0jRP--