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Brian Dolbec posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:38:15 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:20:15 +1200 Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> |
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>> On 23 April 2015 at 15:07, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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>> > Perhaps the slashdot effect of everybody almost at once needing to |
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>> > delete and (re)add their overlays in layman, thus forcing a new |
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>> > clone, |
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>> Eh? That seems incredibly wrong for git. |
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>> git remote set-url master <newurl> |
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>> Would handle the git side. |
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>> You can even tweak git to rewrite all urls for you, like: |
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>> [url "git://anongit.gentoo.org"] |
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>> insteadOf = git://git.overlays.gentoo.org |
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>> Admittedly it may have been hard for layman to be intelligent about |
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>> this, but requiring everyone to remove/add simply for a URI change |
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>> strikes me as rather odd here. |
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> No, layman does try to update the url first, failing that it |
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> deletes/re-adds it. |
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> But I think what happened for some, was, the urls had not yet been |
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> updated or updated correctly in repositories.xml. That resulted in |
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> failures to update to a new valid url. |
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What I know is I was getting a sync-error (IIRC 1) for the overlays, and |
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that deleting/re-adding the overlays via layman, fixed it. |
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If repositories.xml was not yet updated, then how would deleting/re- |
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adding have worked? |
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The overlays were the x11 and kde overlays, both git, both set in |
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repos.conf to sync-type = laymansync, with the syncing done via script |
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that calls emaint sync --repo (so syncs can be backgrounded and done in |
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parallel). |
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Meanwhile, from the bug reports it looks like this switch did trigger |
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reports for a number of latent bugs in layman, with patches already in |
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the live-git version, and I believe lessons were learned about |
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coordinating repo updates when a major host changes as well, so |
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hopefully, if there's a next time it'll go much smoother than this one |
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did. =:^) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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