On 11/28/2012 09:17 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we >> told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. > > Using emerge-webrsync also makes the installation process more robust, > since it only requires HTTP access (whereas many firewalls restrict > RSYNC). Besides, emerge-webrsync can check PGP signatures, so I think > that it should be the primary recommended portage tree synchronization > method. >
The only downside of which I am aware is increased network traffic. However, we could redesign emerge-webrsync to take advantage of GNU Tar's incremental archive functionality. That would permit us to mirror compressed diffs in addition to regular portage snapshots. Doing that well could reduce bandwidth requirements.
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