On Tue, Jan 25, 2022, at 4:36 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2022/01/24 11:42, Aaron Bieber wrote:
>> Another issue is having a ports tree in the "runner".. a git checkout is
>> large, but maybe since it would be "local" to github it wouldn't be
>> _that_ bad?.. but a cvs checkout would be way to slow.
>
> A cvs checkout of the ports tree from anoncvs over my home internet
> connection takes 3 minutes. In that case the client is an 8 year old
> machine with SATA SSD, server HDD (though the tree is probably mostly
> in cache on the server).
>
> I don't think is _way_ too slow when a build could easily take hours
> and often 10-20 minutes.
>
> On a better connected machine that should be at least a bit better too.
>
> btw git clone from github on the same client machine takes about 5
> minutes.
Now try from github infra to github infra - I haven’t done any tests but I bet
it’s faster than going over the internet.
cvs checkout does use less disk space though.
