Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:58:12 +, Glenn Enright wrote: I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than 'emerge sync'. It calls emerge sync, so how can it run faster? # This script imports the current esearch index, # calls `emerge sync` and `eupdatedb` and then # shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:58:12 +, Glenn Enright wrote: I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than 'emerge sync'. It calls emerge sync, so how can it run faster? # This script imports the current esearch index, #

[gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, I want to know for what reason there is sth like updating portage cache after rsync in emerge sync. It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? Greets Paweł -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to let it do just when updating portage tree :) Holpe it helps, Allan On 9/28/05,

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to let it do just when updating portage tree :) Holpe

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Dunc
Paweł Madej wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to let it do just when updating

RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Pawe³ Madej [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2005 12:25 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: This cache is used to resolve all packages you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Dunc wrote: For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad though. I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and run emerge if sth interesting for me appears there). My

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
I forgot link [1] is http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/testing/gentoo_simple.rss Greets Paweł -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Paweł Madej schreef: My other question is if there is some script which could follow rrs from [1] and run emerge sync and emerge -uND world after there is for example 10 ebuild updated comparing to my system, or other way that it will email me that there is 10 ebuilds new and i should run

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose if you really felt that you wanted to have an emerge of thenew packages done automatically, you could always create a script to run esync and mail you the output, then run emerge -uD world after esynccompleted successfully (doesn't seem

RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:04:43 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Well, esync might be what you want-- it's part of gentoolkit, esync is part or esearch. If you prefer eix, it has an equivalent now, diff-eix. This is the script I run from cron.daily emerge world --update --deep --newuse --pretend

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Dave Nebinger wrote: I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. That's what I was looking for ... great speedup. Thx Dave Greets Paweł --

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff

RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Dave Nebinger schreef: It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Tony Davison
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 16:10, Holly Bostick wrote: Dave Nebinger schreef: It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Davison schreef: Its under tips and tricks portage. Just found it myself. HTH I was looking under How-Tos (and searching in the wiki/google for cdb patch). Weird that the wiki search engine didn't find it, though. Maybe I just didn't go through enough of the hits. PS Hows the cold?

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:12, Paweł Madej wrote: Dunc wrote: For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad though. I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and run