From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F07CT-0004IN-8d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:05:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0L13ssJ001332; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:03:54 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0L13r7t002555 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:03:54 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so567217nza for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=U5lAJNjS0LlwODq6wpiEOJt5XcmmtIdiOHa5AUbFL5UtvHFFCn0N7lBqeJ1S9C4cvpkdW9qvB4CGld443dSgdiD1xqEKfNGzkgyBgokmq71i75XczaChI6xdwA8lLeA7g3L9snqVvMETnE7X8Qthpo0I8ToEIU/lw0ZqvkTTgcw= Received: by 10.36.101.4 with SMTP id y4mr1861582nzb; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.10.50? ( [67.167.103.39]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 18sm1417623nzo.2006.01.20.17.03.53; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43D18876.6080304@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:03:50 -0600 From: lnxg33k User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060118) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-performance@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance (sync speedups) References: <20060120004058.99380.qmail@web54514.mail.yahoo.com> <43D04AE6.4090002@gmail.com> <43D04B45.3030409@services-4u.net> <43D04FE1.3080703@gmail.com> <43D06992.30906@netsyncro.com> <43D07346.2040407@lunatic.net.nz> <43D084C5.1020804@egr.msu.edu> <43D11457.5010705@gmail.com> <43D18228.6070802@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43D18228.6070802@egr.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7a14b4d9-b2ea-4d5e-afc2-aedcfd9b3e63 X-Archives-Hash: b49db5365eeb48137cd672fa355e6865 Alec Warner wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > lnxg33k wrote: >> Thanks Alec Warner for the great explanation. It still seems like by not >> having portions of the tree by using EXCLUDEFORM and deleting the local >> dirs that you'd save some time in the --metadata part of sync as less >> ebuilds are available to be checked. Is this simply a wrong misconception? > > The portion that "updates metadata cache" has nothing to do with what > ebuilds are in the tree. It simply takes the server-side caches ( > pregenerated ) and sync them into your local cache. You could RSYNC > exclude the whole tree and this will still happen for every package, > since the metadata is generated on the server ( and the server has the > whole tree ). > > Now if you were to rsync exclude metadata/ you would reduce the > - --metadata portion...because it wouldn't happen ;) > Ah, ok. Hearing it again makes it sound more reasonable. I'll have to watch my rsync output a bit more closely. Thanks again for the explanation. -- gentoo-performance@gentoo.org mailing list