On Jun 6, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Aron Griffis wrote:
This is kinda bloggish, because it's basically a transcription of an
IRC monologue. My apologies if it's hard to follow... Nonetheless,
I'm interested in how other developers feel on the topics I bring up
below.
overlay capabilities are
I like the xml generation pass but i have a few questions:
does the xml-publish transaction lend a greater window of opportunity
for mirror rsync de-sync?
does it make sense for digest info be sucked up into the xml pass, to
be superceded by the legacy files where present ala
ebuild
overall I'm quite pleased with genkernel and have relegated much
tedium to its functions over time. perhaps it's a worthy mule for
more responsibility.
I have mirror volumes which have survived almost 8 years with 2nd and
third generation drives, motherboard, and architecture (32-64 bit).