[gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

I have a little server box on my LAN, which I use as a git server. I'm having 
a bit of trouble with it pro tem so I decided to switch the git sync source on 
this box.

I removed the entry pointing to the local server in repos.conf/gentoo.conf and 
put in 'sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git'

Emerge --sync still insisted on going to the local server, which was not there 
so it stopped.

I had to remove /usr/portage/.git before the repos.conf/gentoo.conf entry was 
respected. And that meant stripping out the whole of /usr/portage and fetching 
the whole lot again.

Is this expected behaviour?

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Regards,
Peter.