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syscrash
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 Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 6:56 pm Post subject: Idea: Emerge Sync |
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| I really hate how long it takes to do an emerge sync, and I had a thought. Why don't they implement a plain text file that has the listing of packages, so it will download that file and replace your old one every time you run emerge sync? Just an idea, but I think it would speed up the sync process considerably. |
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| from my undrstanding of rsync, rsync is so great because it ONLY d/l the files that need updating, not any others. |
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b0d0r
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 2:52 pm Post subject: Re: Idea: Emerge Sync |
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| syscrash2k wrote: | | I really hate how long it takes to do an emerge sync, and I had a thought. Why don't they implement a plain text file that has the listing of packages, so it will download that file and replace your old one every time you run emerge sync? Just an idea, but I think it would speed up the sync process considerably. |
Personally i'd be inclined to disagree...
If you were to search through a text file for an app it would take ages, iin comparisont to the searching speeds of a tree.
Take this example, if we have a file of say 10000 packages. And we need to find a package that is say three quarters of hte wway through. You would need to check 7500 packages before it came to the one you were looking for.
If we take a tree, constructed of the packages available then if the tree were a binary tree as a simple example, we can discard almost half of the packages during the search making it much faster to find the package that needs to be updated.
I can only assume this is how portage works at the moment.
I think that the current portage system is as fast as it can be at the moment. |
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pYrania
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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a better solution would be downloading a plain text file with package info as in --search that gets parsed into a database.
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