Dnia 8 lipca 2018 08:08:31 CEST, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >Please review. > >Title: Portage rsync hardlink support >Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> >Posted: 2018-07-11 >Revision: 1 >News-Item-Format: 2.0 >Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage > >For users of the rsync tree, beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.3.42, >the default behavior for sync operations will use hardlinks in order >to ensure that a repository remains in a valid state if something >goes wrong [1]. For example, if signature verification fails during a >sync operation, the new hardlink behavior will preserve the previous >state of the repository. > >The new behavior may conflict with configurations that restrict the >use of hardlinks, such as overlay filesystems. Therefore, users will >have to set "sync-allow-hardlinks = no" in repos.conf if they have >a configuration that restricts the use of hardlinks, but this should >not be very common: > >[DEFAULT] >sync-allow-hardlinks = no > >[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/660410 sys-apps/portage: use rsync > --link-dest to implement atomic repository updates (and abort if > signature verification fails)
Is safe git syncing implemented already? If not, maybe finish it first and cover both with a single news item. Git is going to be more efficient here, so people may want to learn they have an alternative. -- Best regards, Michał Górny (by phone)
