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 1L7ZVT-00065Q-29 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:57:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A1BFE048C; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEE1E048C for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so1393106yxp.46 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:46:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=Ogcpa8v8WXcJijwOHPK9vcTZwXguFHCgorxsn/GYtkk=; b=Aj0QtaJ1BwIlqN37qhqJyDEvHoXYZP7wjYeC5G1bx8c9ytsDTQXpJQVaOx8kb0PP+2 EoMwHClWyANTxcbC4UIhmK7kznfVbu5c7NsQv/aZUvsgy7qt7AL4bJ3CoEkhKkpoT6Lq MC3yTk+WVarjNoCF2fwXR/V74TozeAb31JOAo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=vbRYlglQa0xtZWVXZZ+Qf4q75a/CJ5YSKpRzURWgGBhp6N1A3pXymr9aV5Ix2wyeIG Zc1xMvzjgcmGmbtfYiZPNWa7VlEi1J7UM2CKRxcPnmSwxYKRrgEgJoP7/fCZjll6BCpE o8513axvVs0QRgau7Nu02hG2NgJ30D1DaP/7o= Received: by 10.142.161.13 with SMTP id j13mr4984134wfe.123.1228239973257; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.76.20 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:46:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:46:13 +0200 From: Tambet To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] About boosting sync Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_74182_27771349.1228239973256" X-Archives-Salt: 350f8af5-d182-47a2-af68-7b4bbb832ce4 X-Archives-Hash: 1da35cacaf7396acaf2e18fb8d22464c ------=_Part_74182_27771349.1228239973256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Has anyone ever noticed that portage tree contains a lot of md5 hashes, which are not at all important for using it? I think that it does not make reliability or functionality smaller any bit if those would all stay in sync servers - anyway, syncing would go much faster and this tree smaller. What about removing all those md5 hashes and downloading them only when they're needed? Tambet - technique evolves to art, art evolves to magic, magic evolves to just doing. ------=_Part_74182_27771349.1228239973256 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Has anyone ever noticed that portage tree contains a lot of md5 hashes, which are not at all important for using it? I think that it does not make reliability or functionality smaller any bit if those would all stay in sync servers - anyway, syncing would go much faster and this tree smaller. What about removing all those md5 hashes and downloading them only when they're needed?

Tambet - technique evolves to art, art evolves to magic, magic evolves to just doing.
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