Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync, where is the URL configured?
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2018 07:26:56
Message-Id:	`20180621082637.625cfe70@digimed.co.uk`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] emerge --sync, where is the URL configured? by Ian Zimmerman

1	On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:57:47 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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3	> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Chroot
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5	> Got to the emerge --sync step, and it works! But why? There is no
6	> $CHROOT/etc/portage/repos.conf, let alone a gentoo.conf file inside it.
7	> So how does it know where to sync from?
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9	Is there a SYNC entry in make.conf? If neither this nor a repos.conf
10	file is present, portage uses a default. See man make.conf.
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14	Neil Bothwick
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16	How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a
17	whole box to start a campfire?