[gentoo-user] an efficient idea for an alternative portage synchronisation

2021-06-18 Thread caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人
tl;dr - i'm suggesting a new file syncing protocol for portage syncing. details of this one is in section 2. 1. background - rsync needs to read all files in order to compare them. this is too expensive and doesn't scale as portage's tree grows in size.. on the other hand, git

Re: [gentoo-user] an efficient idea for an alternative portage synchronisation

2021-06-18 Thread Michael Jones
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 07:10 caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > tl;dr - i'm suggesting a new file syncing protocol > for portage syncing. details of this one is in > section 2. > > > 1. background > - > rsync needs to read all files in order to