On 2011-6-21 16:09 , Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2011-06-20 12:55, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2011-6-20 09:25 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> So we're still rsyncing, but now we're rsyncing a tarball instead of >>> individual files? Could you discuss this change a little? (Motivation, >>> benefits...) >> >> I'm pretty sure we discussed the lack of integrity checking for base and >> dports previously. The signature is the whole point of the exercise; the >> tarball is just because a detached signature for a single file was >> easiest to >> implement. > > But I don't remember we ever evaluated the impact of using a tarball > instead of > individual files. I am not yet convinced this will scale in the same way > it did before.
In what way do you expect it may not scale? I did test this before I made the change, and it performs fine on a 1.8 GHz G5. Rsync reported a speedup of 506 for ports and 290 for base when selfupdating today. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
