After my last emerge --sync, updating the portage cache took around 45 min. This is a typical time for emerge on my machine, regardless of system load. It would be nice if portage could be redesigned to make this faster. A maximum of 5 min would be nice. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. 3. Actual Results: Portage synced and started updating ... *getsomecoffee* ... still updating ... *readmail* ... updating ... *readnews* ... updating ... *cleanthewindows* ... updating ... *isitstuck* ... *noitjustadvancedby1%* ... *givetheflowerssomewater* ... updating ... 100% *yippie!* Expected Results: Make my dizzy because syncing takes less than 1 s ;-) !!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0, 8.2.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 8.2.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X X509 altivec avi bluetooth cdr chroot clamav clamd crypt cups curl curlwrappers dvd dvdr emacs encode examples exif ftp gdbm gmp hpn java javascript leim libwww math mpeg ncurses offensive ogg opengl pcmcia pdflib png ppc-macos ppds python samba slp spell tetex theora threads usb vorbis wifi xml xml2 zlib userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Chopping 88% of the runtime of an algo off as you're suggesting is a sane default is easier said then done.... it's possible to dodge the cache transfer, but it exists for a reason in stable, and people are pretty much stuck with it till tree can be treated as frozen. Beyond that, the 1s on rsync is a bit nuts. Rsync is a harder on the box then cache transfer... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35535 ***
