Re: [9fans] a faster contrib(1)

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

it's a iso.bz2 because I can create it with mk9660 by using
the same proto, the other option was writing a small program
that used proto(2) to list the files and then create the tar.
mk9660 was already there so...

it didn't look like a pain, because you can mount an iso almost
everywhere now a days, even on windows you can use
winrar or 7zip to unpack them

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> Why .iso.bz2?
> Wasn't .tgz enough?
>
> Just wondering.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Federico G. Benavento
> <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hola,
>>
>> we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time
>> now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets.
>>
>> It still uses replica but instead of pulling from sources, it grabs a
>> .iso.bz2 for the package, mounts it and pulls from there (locally), the
>> old behaviour is still supported, in fact if the iso.bz2 isn't found
>> it falls back to the old behavior.
>>
>> pushes are still slow as it maintains the old behavior of updating
>> /n/sources/contrib/$usr/root/ so you don't loose the ability of
>> diffing code against sources.
>>
>> I'll upload it in a bit, but I'd like to hear if you have any comments first
>>
>> old:
>> 0.61u 7.03s 4600.28r     contrib/install fgb/openssl
>>
>> new:
>> 2.91u 6.06s 55.37r       contrib/install fgb/openssl
>>
>>
>> --
>> Federico G. Benavento
>>
>>
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