On 12/09/2012 09:15 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > No, once they are downloaded, they don't change ever after the quarterly > rollover which starts a new updates file. Nor do they take up > significant storage space. They probably take up a higher percentage of > your fs's inodes than % diskspace. > > But they do take time to process and verify every time emerge initiates > a fixpackages call after every sync. That will save time more than it > will space.
It skips the older files if their timestamp hasn't changed since it was recorded in /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. So, there's minimal overhead from keeping them, unless you lose /var/cache/edb/mtimedb somehow. -- Thanks, Zac
