[gentoo-dev] Re: emerge-webrsync bandwidth improvement

[sf <sf@b-i-t.de>]

Brian Harring wrote:
...
> It's a work in progress, but it's been functional without any major 
> bugs for a few weeks now, so if you're interested, take it for a spin.

Thanks in advance for your effort.

On first invocation emerge-delta-webrsync pulled a complete snapshot (as
described in your blog). On second invocation I got:

Looking for available base versions for a delta
fetching patches
failed fetching snapshot-20050503-20050504.patch.bz2.md5sum
no patches found? up to date?  syncing
Syncing local tree...
building file list ...
114391 files to consider

Number of files: 114391
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 89923713 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 2701117
Total bytes written: 2701170
Total bytes read: 20

wrote 2701170 bytes  read 20 bytes  125636.74 bytes/sec
total size is 89923713  speedup is 33.29
cleaning up
transferring metadata/cache
skipping sync

>>> Updating Portage cache:  100%


Is there any way to skip syncing if no patches are found? emerge sync
uses a timestamp for that purpose, doesn't it?

Regards
	Stephan

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