On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Piotr Szymaniak <szar...@grubelek.pl> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:24:56PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: >> Fwiw, I've also long despised the layout of the distfiles directory >> being a flat hierarchy, it makes the directory a festering pit of >> hellspawn over time on any filesystem that doesn't have dirindex. ( >> I've seriously had "ls" take up to a minute to run in that directory, >> and if I've ever made the mistake of trying to tab compete something >> in there .... /usr/portage/distfiles/foo<tab> is my normal muscle >> memory response, and then it sits there doing nothing for a minute and >> it would have been faster to just finish typing it myself =_= ) >> >> Though I don't have any solution better than a "break it into 26 >> subdirs by first letter" . > > Just use categories from repos? > > /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-devel/gcc-1.2.tar.bz2 > /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-libs/glibc-2.3.tar.bz2 > /usr/portage/distfiles/sys-libs/zlib-3.4.tar.bz2 > /usr/portage/distfiles/zomg-soft/zomgawesomesoft-5.3.1.tar.xz > (from zomg repo with custom zomg-soft category ;) > > Btw. what would happen if, ie. mc package - well, two different > packages, one from app-misc, one from sci-libs - but lets say they have > a brand new release 5.0 and there's mc-5.0.tar.bz2 for both of them?
In the current system it is likely you will get a manifest error for one of the packages and then someone will have to rename their distfile. -A > > > Piotr Szymaniak. > -- > - Jeden hamburger na dziesiec ci zaszkodzi. Jeden moj stary przyjaciel > to sprawdzil. Zjadal dziewiec hamburgerow i byl idealnie zdrowy, a gdy > probowal zjesc dziesiatego, z miejsca dostawal torsji. > -- Graham Masterton, "Night Warriors"
