Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache

["Joseph Booker" <joe@neoturbine.net>]

Philippe Lafoucrière said:
> That's the idea. If you look at debian package system (I know, it's far
> different, but ideas can be used on both projects), an update will
> only fetch the "cache", and then, package en demand (using apt-get
> install)

For someone like me using mysql-based cache rather then portage's default
cache, how will that figure?

> There are too many files to consider now in portage. At start, portage
> had just a few hundred of files, and rsync was doing its job quite well.
> Now portage has more than 80 000 files. Rsync has to consider all of
> them, and it's *REALLY* too long + painfull (my laptop is almost
> unusable during rsyncing). Sound like a "select * from table" on a test
> server with 15 test clients => will break in production environnement
> with thousands of clients.

I have a 900mhz celeron (copermine), and maybe its the love-sources and
~x86 packages, but ive still been able to do crazy things like talk on
irc, have firefox open, update some programs, all while 'emerge sync'-ing
without too much preformance lost* (now if i forget to turn off
seti@home.....then my computer will simply lockup untill i can get to a
tty). You might want to check out if theres something with your laptop, if
these extremly long times happen with other equpiment.

* I should mention i emerge sync every one or two days.
-- 
 Joe Booker

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