On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive:
> /portage-20060123.tar.bz2
This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete
that file. Portage is already using uncompressed files under
/usr/portage - that tarball is just a "starter" tarball that portage
bootstraps itself with during the initial Gentoo installation.
That's curious. So I can delete this tarball then?
> I also think that there's another file, /metadata.tar.bz2, which I
> think is portage-related. If possible I'd like to uncompress that as
> well.
I've never seen a metadata tarball. metadata.xml is something portage
keeps uncompressed in /usr/portage for every package.
I've got one on my hard drive. You can have it if you want ; )
> It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive
> /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not!
I think so ;)
If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so
long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less
time to work with. I don't think it should be this slow. I'm not
even talking about compile-times - I know and expect those to be slow,
but just raw package searching and stuff is not that fast.
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