From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4611 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Jun 2003 12:23:34 -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 22318 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 12:23:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3EFC3735.6040501@ineoconcepts.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:23:17 -0400 From: Eric Sammer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "gentoo-dev@gentoo.org" References: <200306250000.00937.tclark@telia.com> <1056492971.20027.5.camel@prefect.f00bar.com> <1056495162.17034.0.camel@alita> <20030627020347.GA11439@niaul.net> <3EFBE81B.3080701@ineoconcepts.com> In-Reply-To: <3EFBE81B.3080701@ineoconcepts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-101.1 required=4.2 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, USER_IN_WHITELIST,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: [gentoo-dev] Directory services (was Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.) X-Archives-Salt: 2ee603bf-524e-48ef-8756-75e598e918ed X-Archives-Hash: fa3ca8e1155a4c698c77fd11b1bff49b Just to add something to my last email about portage and database / directory services... While talking to my wife this morning (a sysadmin and security professional and fellow gentoo user) about this situation, we realized something else about portage in openldap. This would (or could, depending on implementation) severely limit the rsync bottle neck by allowing for a hierarchy of directory servers to be replicated from by users. With clever use of referals and replication, you could effectively remove the rsync issues of bandwidth and the "stop-syncing-so-often-it's-rude" problem. Updates to portage would be propagated down the line when commited moving a smaller (but steady) stream of traffic rather than unpredictable bursts (note: that's an assumption). This would eliminate the need for 'emerge sync' (in theory). Again, this is all very academic as the data to back up these ideas is out of the public eye (thankfully). Maybe just food for thought... Thanks to all devs for all the great work. -- Eric Sammer eric@ineoconcepts.com http://www.ineoconcepts.com -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list