Bug 34724

Summary:	Improve portage syncing ( cvsup ).
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Nicko Lukianov <nicko>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nicko Lukianov 2003-11-29 14:21:51 UTC

to sync portage tree i need to sync all the ebuilds. its stupid, killing gentoo
servers bandwidth and users bandwidth, 
it will be smart to use something like cvsup from BSD to sync single ports(ebuilds).
for example: i want to sync only /usr/portage/sys-kernel.
and for doing that i need to sync the hole portage tree.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. support anonymoust cvs

Actual Results:  
killed my bandwidth

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-01 21:31:57 UTC

anonymous cvs was offered in the past but disabled due to server load. rsync tries  to minimize the bandwith by using diffs and compression, a typical `emerge --sync` shouldn't cause more than 1 or 2 MB of traffic (assuming you sync at least weekly). cvsup is an option for portage-ng but needs some major work done before it can be deployed.