From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31836 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Jun 2003 15:56:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30216 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 15:56:26 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: sam.unet.brandeis.edu: rossgir owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:56:25 -0400 (EDT) From: ross b girshick X-X-Sender: rossgir@sam.unet.brandeis.edu To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030624084107.4d9c3e46.seemant@gentoo.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Updating Portage Cache" optimizations X-Archives-Salt: 9bca9c0c-c408-4687-9c1d-72e65786f23c X-Archives-Hash: 3f8378d9c895c63bd30e976d8ed21d41 > Having not seen the current code at all, but if it is as you say, I should think an rsync would be more efficient to do. > As for proper channels, please point your browser to bugs.gentoo.org The cache in /metadata/cache is updated through rsync. Though it seems that it is not guaranteed to be up-to-date (I haven't studied how to set up a gentoo rsync mirror, so I'm not sure how and when the cache is compiled). If this cache was guaranteed to be up-to-date, then /var/cache/edb/dep would be 100% redundant. Right now it's 98% redundant, and emerge spends a lot of time regenerating that missing 2%. Ross -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list