Am Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2010, 10:18:23 schrieb Dave Plater:

> Hi, I'm a disk space disadvantaged packager and I've found that when I

> use osc ci from local copy that osc is downloading a large quantity of

> data, +-300MB, prior to the diff screen coming up. Where does all this

> data go and what is it for? This particular package home:plater kicad

> had a 188MB doc.tar.bz2 in it at the time, due to having bzr info in it.

> I've noticed this behaviour with other packages with large tarballs as

> well, is osc possibly downloading the tarballs to compare them? If so

> couldn't this comparison be done in another way like an md5 sum for

> instance?

Seriously, when you deal with such large files, you should not complain about

disk usage.

You can use

osc co -l $SIZE

option with latest osc to ignore files larger than the defined value.

And with

osc add http://....

you can even avoid to download it at all to your system when submitting

a new version. It still happens when doing a local build of course.

bye

adrian

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Adrian Schroeter

SUSE Linux Products GmbH

email: adrian@suse.de