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On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:46:12 -0700 |
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Bryan Gardiner <bog@××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:52:26 +0200 |
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> marco@×××××××.it wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > i have a layman git profile to store my stuff. |
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> > |
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> > Is possible to force layman -S to sync a specific branch ? |
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> This is speculation (and a bit of looking at Portage code), since I |
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> haven't tried this. Ignoring Layman, repos.conf repositories support |
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> syncing[1], so does it work to create: |
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> /etc/portage/repos.conf/myrepo.conf: |
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> [myrepo] |
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> location = /path/to/local/repo |
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> sync-type = git |
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> sync-uri = git://... |
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> auto-sync = yes |
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> and just emerge --sync? If you didn't have the local repo already |
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> then it would clone and use master, but I suspect that you can switch |
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> branches afterward, and Portage will simply call "git pull". |
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> There also seem to be extra options "sync-git-clone-extra-opts" and |
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> "sync-git-pull-extra-opts" for git modules, so you might be able to |
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> set: |
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> sync-git-clone-extra-opts = --branch somebranch |
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> to fix initially checking out master. |
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> HTH, |
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> Bryan |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync |
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If you're set on using Layman though, does Layman switch back to master |
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on every sync, or is it the initial checkout you're concerned about? |
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Or just a convenience to have Layman switch branches? |
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- Bryan |
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