On 11/28/2012 09:05 AM, Richard Yao wrote: > 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. > weekly fulls and daily diffs?
-- -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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