Why .iso.bz2? Wasn't .tgz enough? Just wondering.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Federico G. Benavento <benave...@gmail.com> wrote: > hola, > > we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time > now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets. > > It still uses replica but instead of pulling from sources, it grabs a > .iso.bz2 for the package, mounts it and pulls from there (locally), the > old behaviour is still supported, in fact if the iso.bz2 isn't found > it falls back to the old behavior. > > pushes are still slow as it maintains the old behavior of updating > /n/sources/contrib/$usr/root/ so you don't loose the ability of > diffing code against sources. > > I'll upload it in a bit, but I'd like to hear if you have any comments first > > old: > 0.61u 7.03s 4600.28r contrib/install fgb/openssl > > new: > 2.91u 6.06s 55.37r contrib/install fgb/openssl > > > -- > Federico G. Benavento > >
