On Friday 24 February 2006 00:39, Alexander Kirillov wrote: > >>BSD ports system may not be as complex as Gentoo's > >>and needs more attention to maintain port dependencies > >>but this "abuse of make" IS REAL FAST. > > > > portage is REAL SLOW. > > So you should install/use cdb, which makes the whole rsync/update process > > REAL FAST. > > > >>If you sync regularly it's usually within 5 min. > > > > it is, with cdb. > > Thanks for the hint. > If I got it right here's the link for those interested: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > Looks very interesting and I wonder why is it not in portage yet?
well ,the chat log tells you why ;) but you also look into the forum. A portage update broke it for me, and in the forum were updated instructions - I don't know, if the gentoowiki was updated too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
