Hello Michael,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:41:21 +1200
Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote:

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> > Note that it now expects bzr branch with explicit version, e.g.
> > lp:gcc-linaro/4.5 or lp:gcc-linaro/4.6 .
> 
> Minor nit: these are called 'series'.

I understand that in Launchpad's terms it's series, but there's doesn't
seem to be such notion on bzr level, so how they're represented in bzr
- are they 2 separate repositories, or 2 branches of the same repo?

> 
> > Well, now the issue: the builds above are not quite ready to be
> > daily. That's because bzr checkout is slow, and is also quite big.
> > Normal bzr clone takes 1.1Gb and cloud build takes 1hr instead of
> > 30min with a tarball. I tried to play with bzr checkout
> > --lightweight, but ctrl+c'ed it when it showed that it dealt with
> > 1.3Gb of stuff (surprisingly, after break, I saw almost empty local
> > empty structure, so I wonder if that wasn't d/l counter, but even
> > then it's awfully slow).
> >
> > So, where do we go from here? Unless there's tip export feature
> > directly out of remote repo for bzr (bzr export seem to requite
> > local working copy), we'd need to play mirror, this time bzr, again
> > %).
> 
> Make an initial shared repository, take an initial branch, tar it up,
> store it somewhere in the same zone, and use that to seed the
> checkout.  That should cut the checkout to minutes and ~10 MB.

Yes, I was thinking about some adhoc mirroring using cron, but this
seems like even better idea, thanks.

> 
> See:
>  https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BzrTips
> 
> -- Michael



-- 
Best Regards,
Paul

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