On Tuesday 03 April 2007 14:23:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > emerge --sync makes a call to rsync program ? I did not take the time > yet to learn more about Gentoo specific softwares, but I will do that > soon. Look at the sizes format in bytes. Today it often happens -well, > most of the time- several Mo of download, so the byte unit is not very > useful but Kb/Mb/Gb units could be a more human readable format. I > used to deal with --si or -H when using df as an example. By default, > size unit is byte, but when you want to understand the numbers with no > mental extra operation, It is quite good to print the more suitable > unit.
From `man rsync`:
-h, --human-readable
Output numbers in a more human-readable format. This makes big
numbers output using larger units, with a K, M, or G suffix. If this
option was specified once, these units are K (1000), M (1000*1000),
and G (1000*1000*1000); if the option is repeated, the units are
powers of 1024 instead of 1000.
So just add PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--human-readable" to /etc/make.conf.
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