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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:19:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49908FE6.3040402@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49902202.1080607@gentoo.org>

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Zac Medico wrote:
>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800
>>> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>> Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to
>>>>> keep track of and store junk under version control.
>>>> I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I
>>>> said, I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule.
>>> If you start encouraging this approach, are you prepared to make
>>> Portage warn extremely noisily if a repository-provided (as opposed to
>>> user generated) cache entry is found to be stale?
>> Sure. Otherwise, it's confusing for the user when dependency
>> calculations take longer than usual for no apparent reason.
>>
> 
> It would probably be useful to provide a central rsync infra for
> overlays where overlay maintainers could subscribe their overlays to and
> the machine would pull in their VCS and generate the metadata for them.

That's fine if somebody wants to implement it. The introduction of
DIGESTS data in the metadata cache does not preclude it. Like I just
said in another reply [1], the ability to distribute cache via a vcs
is only an ancillary feature which is made possible by the DIGESTS data.

[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_760e199e74796fed7e56236f248efe9e.xml
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Thanks,
Zac
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 20:34 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation Zac Medico
2009-02-06  9:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markus Ullmann
2009-02-07  1:13   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-07 22:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2009-02-07 23:23   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08  8:07     ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-08  8:59       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 11:51         ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-08 20:36           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 21:48             ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-08 22:14               ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 22:18     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 22:43       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 22:47         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 23:03           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 23:10             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 23:27               ` Zac Medico
2009-02-08 23:30                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-08 23:40                   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-09 12:30                     ` Petteri Räty
2009-02-09 13:59                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-09 14:15                         ` Petteri Räty
2009-02-09 14:18                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-09 14:21                           ` Rémi Cardona
2009-02-09 20:19                       ` Zac Medico [this message]
2009-02-09 18:43         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-09 20:02           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-09 15:22     ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-09 19:55       ` Zac Medico
2009-02-10 12:20         ` Brian Harring
2009-02-10 12:52           ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-02-10 20:55           ` Zac Medico
2009-02-11  9:00             ` Brian Harring
2009-02-11 10:01               ` Zac Medico
2009-02-14 13:18                 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-14 20:16                   ` Zac Medico
2009-02-15 22:51     ` Zac Medico
2009-02-15 23:15       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-15 23:26         ` Zac Medico
2009-02-15 23:30           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-15 23:56             ` Zac Medico
2009-02-16  0:06               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-16  0:48                 ` Zac Medico
2009-02-16  0:53                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-16  0:54                   ` Zac Medico

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