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* [gentoo-dev] To big "files"-dir solution
@ 2003-07-20 18:57 99% Heinrich Wendel
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From: Heinrich Wendel @ 2003-07-20 18:57 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi,

As the files dir grows more and more and already big files (>20k or something 
like that) are move to distfiles, I thought of a relative simple and 
efficient solution for this.

You could leave all files in the "files"-dir (even big one). Now the rsync 
master mirror makes a tgz out of the files dir, removes it and moves the tgz 
to the distfiles or another location. Before emerging a package Portage 
downloads the files.tgz from the mirror and extracts it to its usual 
directory. 

This would only add 3 or 4 lines of portage code, but would remove about 
20.000 files from /usr/portage.

mfg, Heinrich :)

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