Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone

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Hi,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2008 7:45 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > So it happens to be just faster to re-clone the whole thing by 
> > > upstream.
> >
> > So what you are doing is passing the work, unnecessary work I'd say, 
> > to some poor server. Not nice.
> 
> To a poor net bandwidth I would say because cloning from zero just 
> downloads the packages.

Not exactly.  Remember, if you did not "repack" via clone, the server 
would spend less cycles _and_ bandwidth on you.  Namely zero.

Ciao,
Dscho

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