Re: [b3] Validate changes

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think so, if you mean literally
"validate the content metadata constraints". If you really want
one repo from 50, the whole "validation" takes place .. and,
this is a good thing since something in one repo might invalidate something
in other repos, even though the changed repo is itself "self valid".
But, if you mean "get all the artifacts again", then its a clear
"yes", there is a "BUILD" and "CLEAN_BUILD"
option ... the one just gets any new artifacts, the other removes all the
artifacts and then re-fetches them.  Of course, you probably have
already seen the VALIDATE option which doesn't fetch any artifacts, and
that's probably what you  are asking about. Of course, the good news
is the b3 aggregator uses pretty much pure p2 API so I assume it takes
advantage of how ever p2 caches content meta-data ... so who better to
find if any improvements are needed there? :) 

I say "I don't think so",
since you might be able to do more with dividing things into logical "validation
sets" and then (externally) choose which you want to validate ....
but, just guessing here. I've not worked much with validation sets. 

But, I can say in "Simultaneous
Release", we can routinely validate 50 or so repositories, and its
pretty quick ... of course, as you know, depends on their size, network
connections, etc. On the eclipse production server, we don't do/have any
pure VALIDATE jobs ... just because I never got around to it or saw a need,
but I have done that locally (slower network) and (from my vague memory)
just takes 15 minutes or so. 

HTH




From:      
 Pascal Rapicault <pascal.rapicault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "b3@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<b3@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
Date:      
 03/06/2013 04:48 PM
Subject:    
   [b3] Validate
changes
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Hi, 
 
I’m new to b3 and would like to use
it to create an aggregation repo from well over 50 p2 repos. 
Given that there is not a lot changes
in each repository, and I would like to run this process daily, I would
like to know if it is possible to only validation of the content that has
changed. 
 
Thx
 
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