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From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:47:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602231547.43210.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FD8DCA.5060702@infoline.su>

On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:26, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> >>I already think Gentoo base system requirements are a bit heavy just
> >> having python in there.  (I'm trying to run gentoo on my WRT54G 1.1;
> >> storage over nfs/nbd)  It would be completely over-the-top to require
> >> Modula 3 support as well.
> >
> > Just tried cvsup on a FreeBSD box (in vmware) and it totally sucked.
> > Took 1hr 20 min to update on a 512KB DSL.
> >
> > Link wasn't even saturated! Might as well be on 56K connection. DL rate
> > max I've seen was 8KB/s
>
> BSD ports system may not be as complex as Gentoo's
> and needs more attention to maintain port dependencies
> but this "abuse of make" IS REAL FAST.

portage is REAL SLOW.
So you should install/use cdb, which makes the whole rsync/update process REAL 
FAST.

> If you sync regularly it's usually within 5 min.

it is, with cdb.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21 10:07 [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync Ow Mun Heng
2006-02-21 11:10 ` Julien Cabillot
2006-02-21 11:24 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-22  0:38   ` Aniruddha Shankar
2006-02-22  9:53     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-23  2:04   ` Ow Mun Heng
2006-02-23 10:26     ` Alexander Kirillov
2006-02-23 14:47       ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
2006-02-23 23:39         ` Alexander Kirillov
2006-02-24  0:27           ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-02-24  6:00           ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-24 14:16             ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-02-24 14:37               ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-24 15:47                 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-02-25  6:37                   ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-25 12:32                     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-17 18:24                   ` [gentoo-user] cdb with portage 2.1 (was: CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync) Alexander Skwar
2006-03-17 22:26                     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-17 22:33                     ` Bo Andresen
2006-03-18  6:16                       ` [gentoo-user] cdb with portage 2.1 Alexander Skwar
2006-03-18  7:22                         ` Bo Andresen

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