On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 17:21 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 31/01/11 16:27, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > This is more a general question, I understand abs is updated every 24 > > hours. Would more regular updates (say, every 1 hour or so) be better? > > > > Currently, for those (like me) who compulsively update, abs is pretty > > much guaranteed to be behind the latest packages in any mirror (by a max > > of 24 hours). If it doesn't cost (resources etc.) too much for abs to be > > updated every 1 hour, wouldn't this mean that most mirrors are likely to > > be in sync with abs just about all the time? > > > > Obviously I've got self-interest in this, since I auto-patch (using > > bauerbill) some packages from the repos. Its not a huge priority (I can > > manually access the SVN interface, but I think it'd be useful. > > > > The ABS update is quite inefficient... it takes about 15 minutes to > run. If this was improved, then I would see no reason not to run it > every hour. Saying that, I seem to remember that we were going to run > this a few more times a day, but I have no idea what happened to that... > > Allan Ah, I had no idea it took so long. In that case it wouldn't make sense to have it run so often, of course. Doesn't it simply tar everything in the directory?
