On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:42:38 -0500, David Relson wrote: > Interesting. At the moment emerge is updating my linux-headers from > 2.6.17-r1 to 2.6.17-r2. The first step is downloading > linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2 which, at 41MB, seems more like a complete kernel > source tree than just the headers. Overkill, eh?
This show the disadvantage of aggressively cleaning $DISTDIR. You have already downloaded this file once, when you installed 2.6.17-r1 (or even earlier when you first installed a 2.6.17 kernel). Patch level updates use the same source files, so cleaning out tarballs for installed packages results in more downloads and more load on the mirrors. -- Neil Bothwick Tribble math: * + * = ***********************************
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