On 2014/07/01 11:57, Marc Espie wrote: > I've just switched on "out-of-order" packages, after much testing. > > What this means: > > new packages won't be compatible with older pkg_add. Most specifically, > the plist order may no longer match the packing-list. > > -> if you see strange pkg_add errors, and your base system is not uptodate, > that's your fault. > > New bulks will exploit that feature: build machines log an history of > files in a package. With out-of-order archives, they can take advantage > of that to produce packages where the most recently changed files are > at the front. > > For some packages, this can be a drastic performance improvement: some > measurements show that as much as half of some packages do not change > over a 2 months period. > > Note that this will speed up "dependency, maintainer and other meta info" > updates even more, as the package extraction may stop right after the meta > information... >
Now we just need rsync-friendly gzip to help the mirrors :-)
