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 1JZLsZ-0000s8-9P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:00:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F7EBE0784; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.easynet.es (smtp.easynet.es [62.93.189.65]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66902E0784 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bt-silvano.easynet.es ([213.139.15.18] helo=silvanoc.com) by smtp.easynet.es with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JZLsW-0001Vk-Jh; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, news Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what is "a normal rsync"? Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.4 March 27, 2005 Message-ID: From: tecnic5@silvanoc.com Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:57:18 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on mailserver/SCRT(Release 5.0.4 |June 8, 2000) at 12/03/2008 08:57:21, Serialize complete at 12/03/2008 08:57:21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Easynet-bounce-key: easynet.es;tecnic5@silvanoc.com;1205308805;960e4e5f; X-Archives-Salt: 5c900784-69b0-4757-bc7b-24a5dad00196 X-Archives-Hash: d5e6d6677956de9a8b18ad472fed42da Grant Edwards Enviado por: news 12/03/2008 04:33 Por favor, responda a gentoo-user Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org cc: Asunto: [gentoo-user] Re: what is "a normal rsync"? On 2008-03-12, Shawn Haggett wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync connections, so >> I did a emege-webrsync. It appears to have downloaded and >> installed a current snapshot and updated the portage cache: >> *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible. >> Update is current as of the of YYYYMMDD: 20080310 >> What is meant by "perform a normal rsync"? > I assume it would mean the normal "emerge --sync" if you can, which you > can't. I would assume it would say this since the rsync would be more up > to date then the webrsync snapshot.... OK, but why would one have done a webrsync in the first place unless doing an "emerge --sync" wasn't possible? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Catsup and Mustard at all over the place! It's visi.com the Human Hamburger! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list *** AFAIK emerge-webrsync downloads one single tar.bz2-ed file and then expands it to obtain the portage tree, while normal rsync checks for differences in every file and then fetches the new ones. My guess is that normal rsync is faster when your current copy of the Portage tree is almost up-to-date, since just a files will be downloaded, however, if your copy is old, you'll make it easier just getting a whole copy of the tree (even if it isn't the latest one). Does the community agree? Abraham -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list