From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWs6d-0004ow-Lt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:52:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FEB5E04B2; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB25E04B2 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j3so1988468tid.10 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:52:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MewGnmX0wbaqpDiLb/kIJeCY04iQax000X6y5wTCWCs=; b=RlV75/Xtf96g9HxYl5BJUjvx/LI7bmvh0NNJhov7nbKndo1LOdaC4G10T0F5F/2olx mRxfghU3Nqx5N+IkoTGQYI6+h2mV81cZPK6HDatYodo3rRK0jJQ3Yn1Ll1eUcQOdSWef /DQfdARtSoL1AuwfUzUM9pkgGg9c4QGQ+kQuc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lLI6DtmtTeS8Kazk/v3Mz9XQtFWGgRF4/URndPypAeJ/n3yl8QWWcZgiGPcajd8WGX cxGn/kruDJTPO4+wlSQafaTKI9oVJY30QY90Z0dzQZdUe1KpwtA7jUGKuoFiB7mt5azs Bb+2QuJdJ8U5sTHaU98nIo4YAWIyWiUeDiqj4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.110.11.4 with SMTP id 4mr10749236tik.1.1234270368704; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:52:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090210122046.GD4076@hrair> References: <498758E6.5080609@gentoo.org> <1234045916.24784.1373.camel@localhost> <498E17E6.8060407@gentoo.org> <1234192940.18160.1011.camel@localhost> <49908A3D.4050403@gentoo.org> <20090210122046.GD4076@hrair> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:22:48 +0530 Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0902100452x68165487q7c74a5358b19f2b6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 00e80f82-581d-4eb0-bcf6-0eb2949c5edd X-Archives-Hash: ee98a1c64d7c094e318a1ae50b382649 On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Brian Harring wrote: > So... flame away. When I first read Zac's original email, I was sure that a change was required, and I'm sure now as well (I personally find the cache stuff pretty clunky). However, I think that a time has come for more *radical* change to the repository format. We've learnt a lot of lessons regarding flat-file repository management, and our experience could result in a new much better system. I'm not sure what kind of tree structure exherbo uses, but I'm sure there are ideas we could take from there as well. This alongwith our plans for moving to GIT, and the tagging need, and various others means this is a good time for a "revolution" :) As they say, "Keep one to throw away, you're going to anyway". -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan