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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>(by way of Thomas Orgis <thomas AT orgis.org>)]

Regarding the huge patch in gnome2-libs/gnome-python-extras ...

Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:15:06 +0200
schrieb Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>: 

> >> Can't it at least be compressed?
> > 
> 
> I just compressed it and chmod +x PRE_BUILD (was ignored).

But heck, isn't it still insane to have such a huge patch in the
grimoire?
Wondering about spell sizes...

shell$ du -ks */* | sort -n
100     collab/openldap
100     devel/python
100     kde-core/kdebase
100     mail/imap
100     php-pear/php
104     http/firefox
104     net/bind
108     database/firebird
108     kernels/linux-initrd
108     mail/postfix
108     net/samba
112     database/mysql
112     mail/exim
112     net/jigdo
112     security/shadow
116     audio-soft/gramofile
116     disk/xcdroast
116     shell-term-fm/zsh
120     mail/qmail
120     xorg-xserver/xorg-server
128     disk/udev-old
128     editors/vim
128     libs/glibc
144     disk/udev
144     net/netconf
144     wm-addons/wdm
144     xorg-app/xmore
148     mail/mutt
148     smgl/linux-initramfs
152     shell-term-fm/bash
188     python-pypi/bzr
204     security/skey
228     disk/grub
240     smgl/init.d
244     smgl/smgl-upstart
324     http/apache2
364     http/httpd-dev
392     http/apache22
396     display/qingy-themes
472     net/tor.gpg
624     gnome2-libs/gnome-python-extras
4188    kernels/linux

So, the uncomressed state of gnome-python-extrase made it the single
largest spell in the grimoire. Now the kernel spell with its masses of
patches has the lead again. I'd consider a patchset tarball for that
one as guru-signed source... the grimoire should be mostly scripts,
IMHO... though the linux spell probably has more justification to be
special than any other spell (note how glibc is "just" 128K;-). But
still, even the compressed patch makes gnome-python-extras the
second-largest spell, which is a bit out of proportion.

I might be unreasonable, but perhaps we can introduce some limit on
spell/patch size, at least as a guide, from where to consider putting
stuff on the mirrors as separate archives? The grimoire is still
seriously bloated because on the usual file system we have many very
small files that use a full cluster (example on ext3: .git is 88M, the
whole tree, including .git, is 264M). But it would be nice if we at
least tried to keep it tight (so, using some smarter file system /
read-only-archive solution, the uncompressed grimoire could fit into a
few MB).
This especially is to consider because big spells bloat the system as
they're copied to the tablet.

Apart from the general issue that probably applies to most of the
spells listed above... what does the 4M-uncompressed patch do? Fix up
autoconf for gdl in gnome-python-extras? That scares me. 4 mebibytes.


Alrighty then,

Thomas.


PS: Indeed, with the mass of commits, including adding/removing patch
sets, it's amazing how the total size of our grimoire history (except
auxilliary branches, I suppose) fits into 88M.

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