From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2MCxCwj025621 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:59:12 GMT Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.204]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDiyV-0004ME-9z for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:59:11 +0000 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b11so1096950rne for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:59:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=VuoeAYFQIpIh5SsAE3JlGEg49y+F2Tv4j3M48GAwQ3cyukE+ncbN88hyIPgZb9jjokJEwBSegmFmMI4bDUfBRLknuqsgWGLurcgBruCAzCGaYbymSu8dZq9+z5IJWDWhm4fQueyVVMqB3r6ZQ77xfN2lFo7lN7uugSqU5HvEqw0= Received: by 10.38.12.26 with SMTP id 26mr5533930rnl; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:59:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.76.66 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:59:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8953a1db0503220459ee6e009@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:59:11 +0000 From: Paul Waring To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method In-Reply-To: <42401375.5000003@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200503220715.02669.gentoo-dev@wizy.org> <42401375.5000003@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 0bebda85-eb52-49f4-8bdc-987405f33fc4 X-Archives-Hash: 4de9a49719c869b17fc0f13092339566 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:45:41 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > So on every sync, you have to download the entire 260mb ISO file? > > I don't think our mirrors would be very happy about that. I don't think users would be either - I for one don't want to sit around for over an hour waiting for something to download, even on broadband (it's bad enough when there are new updates of the kernel and xorg). Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list