On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:46:28AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 18-01-2008 01:21:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > If a transition period would be available, I could make Portage > > > alarm users to fix the SYNC variable to reflect the new URL. I also > > > need to add/fix/change Portage's support for this new URL scheme. > > You're syncing directly from overlays SVN-HTTP? I hope not with the sync > > frequency of some of the other users out there. > I have no other option, do I? I requested rsync in some bug a while ago > with one of the reasons to reduce overlays' load. Not really doable at the moment (but after some of the other pending infra stuff, it is up for handling).
> > As you support SVN already, you should just need to change the URL > > (since you are just handing it to SVN), and run svn switch. But ok, I'll > > give you 30 days for /repositories/alt/ once the new overlays box has > > SVN. (Combined with a suitably large warning in the SVN browse view). > The problem is that emerge --sync obfuscates that SVN is being used > underneath. Some (most?) users will not have a clue they are using SVN. How about rolling out a prefix-portage update that just kicks them into updating it? -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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