Bug 270380

Summary:	sys-apps/mtree Unpacking a huge archive to compile a tiny fraction
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Assaf Berg <p.gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	binki
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Updated ebuild optimized for extracting mtree diff between the original ebuild and the optimized ebuild

Description Assaf Berg 2009-05-19 06:02:09 UTC

I tried to emerge mtree the other day and was suprised to see that not only it downloads the entire pkgsrc archive (understandable) but also unpacks the whole thing (which is more than 500 MB, where I stopped it).

This is not really a bug but very inefficient, when a small change to the ebuild can make sure only the relevant parts of the archive are unpacked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mtree
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Comment 1 Assaf Berg 2009-05-19 06:03:33 UTC

Created attachment 191744 [details]
Updated ebuild optimized for extracting mtree

Comment 2 Assaf Berg 2009-08-02 13:44:30 UTC

Created attachment 199916 [details, diff]
diff between the original ebuild and the optimized ebuild

No one is maintaining this? It's such a small diff (see attachment)

http://assaf-tech.blogspot.com/2009/05/other-day-i-thought-it-would-be.html

Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-01-17 11:54:26 UTC

Latest mtree tarballs are very small.