Alec Warner wrote:
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lnxg33k wrote:
Thanks Alec Warner for the great explanation. It still seems like by not
having portions of the tree by using EXCLUDEFORM and deleting the local
dirs that you'd save some time in the --metadata part of sync as less
ebuilds are available to be checked. Is this simply a wrong misconception?
The portion that "updates metadata cache" has nothing to do with what
ebuilds are in the tree. It simply takes the server-side caches (
pregenerated ) and sync them into your local cache. You could RSYNC
exclude the whole tree and this will still happen for every package,
since the metadata is generated on the server ( and the server has the
whole tree ).
Now if you were to rsync exclude metadata/ you would reduce the
- --metadata portion...because it wouldn't happen ;)
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Ah, ok. Hearing it again makes it sound more reasonable. I'll have to watch my
rsync output a bit more closely. Thanks again for the explanation.
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