On Monday 06 March 2006 12:36, Alec Warner wrote:
> Michael Renner wrote:
> > Kurt Lieber wrote:
> >> If we can come up with a seamless, painless transition process, great,
> >> let's make it happen.
> >
> >  From the _MIRROR_-side using hardlinks should be fine enough, we'd just
> > have to ensure that every mirror uses -H (preserve hardlinks). And for
> > the mirrors not using -H this will just result in increased traffic and
> > diskusage (42GB at the moment, might hurt a bit ;) ). Shouldn't be a
> > problem though ensuring that every mirror uses -H (and I think they
> > already do, since we already did hardlink magic when moving old releases
> > to historical)
> >
> > I guess the more complicated part will be adapting the ebuild system to
> > look for/store the files in the new location.
>
> Taking the earlier comment ( changing files only on the mirrors ) there
> are no portage changes that are technically required.  However, you'd
> need to change about 10000 ( random number I pulled out of my ass, but
> there are many affected ) SRC_URI's to point to the new format, or
> produce some sort of hack that translates between the two, and I
> wouldn't be to fond of the latter effort, mostly because it would
> probably rot in the tree for way too long ;)
>
> And you need to modify policy for placing files on the mirrors, but
> thats not a portage problem either; from the portage POV the change is
> relatively seamless.
>
> > best regards,
> > Michael

Hrm, /me thinks you are missing something there, almost the entire tree 
doesn't explicitly state the mirror://gentoo SRC_URI, portage handles that 
automatically. That being the case portage would have change so that the 
automatic lookup was mirror://gentoo/${firstchar}/. So that is at least one 
portage change I can think of being required....

Sure I can still see your point about needing to manually change the packages 
that do explicitly state mirror://gentoo in their SRC_URI, but given that you 
would have to do the above anyway....

-- 
Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel}
dostrow@gentoo.org