Hi, ----- On 19 Jul, 2016, at 17:09, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
> The commit message says "make sync and selfupdate via signed tarballs the > default" > > Was signing support the only reason for this change? On one of my systems with > an evidently slow disk, "sudo port sync" takes several minutes to complete, > spent mostly on decompressing the tarball, even, I think, if the tarball is > unchanged, whereas using the old rsync URL, "sudo port sync" is very quick > since it only has to write the changes to disk and not the entire ports > collection each time. I've noticed the same thing, but I don't see an alternative. We don't provide a signature for the non-tarball variant and rsync isn't encrypted or otherwise authenticated, so the non-tar version is significantly worse. May there is a flag we could pass to tar to only extract new or changed files that would speed up this process? -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev