Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

[n952162]

On 8/2/21 2:01 PM, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 2 August 2021 12:10:12 BST n952162 wrote:
>> On 8/1/21 8:32 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, n952162 wrote:
>>>>     * Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine
>>>>
>>>> ...!!! Manifest verification failed:
>>>>     Manifest mismatch for metadata/news/Manifest
>>>>
>>>> I've raised this question before and the only useful answer I got was to
>>>> keep trying
>>> On the off chance that something is screwy on the remote end, you can
>>> always use "emerge-webrsync" and delay the problem until next time.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, I would say check "dmesg" for disk errors, but if it's
>>> happening on two machines that's a lot less likely.
>> I have this problem every month.  Why does it fail?  Is it just a
>> timeout because my network is slow?  Can that be tweaked?
> I get this problem over here, but on rare occasions.  Leaving it for half a
> day usually fixes it.  Have you tried a different rsync mirror?  You can use
> 'mirrorselect -i -r' for this task.


Unfortunately, mirrorselect doesn't seem to work anymore:

configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.

It seems to have lost track of whether it's editing make.conf or repos.conf.

I ran it with the -o option, to a tempfile and tried to put that into
/etc/portage/repos.conf, I think, but that didn't work either.

Next, I manually editted /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf and put
that line in where the old sync-uri was defined.  But that didn't work
either.

Now, I've created a new directory /etc/portage/repos.conf/ and moved the
file generate by the -o of mirrorselect into that as gentoo.conf and
added a "[gentoo]" section head.  It MIGHT be working now.