[SOLVED] Why download every time?

Tony0945 · Last edited by Tony0945 on Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

This overlay ebuild for palemoon-28.3.1 fetches the source with git every time it runs.
This is a waste of bandwidth. How can I change it to download in /usr/portage/distfiles and not download if it already exists?

There are two issues here. It is a big package and how can I be sure I'm getting the same code every time?
https://data.gpo.zugaina.org/palemoon/www-client/palemoon/palemoon-28.3.1.ebuild

Jaglover · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 4:34 pm Post subject:

It is supposed to download into $DISTDIR/git3-src/. Subsequent runs pull only changes, not the whole source.
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Tony0945 · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:03 pm Post subject:

Interesting. It seems to be pulling down every time, at least when running "ebuild palemoon-28.3.1.ebuild configure" cycling with "clean".

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:38 pm Post subject:

As Jaglover says you shouldn't be downloading it every time. You should just be pulling any changes. I haven't downloaded since 28.1 so when I do update it will pull all changes from 28.1 to 28.3 or whatever version. If they're doing ongoing work at the remote end and are saving their changes then you'll pick those up, even if they're as simple as comment changes.

When you run the ebuild it will go and see if there are any changes, but it shouldn't download (delta's) unless there are changes on the remote end.

As far as just using the source that you have downloaded, you'd have to modify the ebuild for the SRC area. (No, I'm not sure how to do it off the top of my head).
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Tony0945 · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:08 pm Post subject:

Ah! So the lag I see when it says "downloading" is not necessarily downloading but checking for changes.