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From: Alarig Le Lay <alarig@××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webrsync
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:42:14
Message-Id: 20200223213656.vykvhetjt6dzzv5l@mew.swordarmor.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] webrsync by Ian Zimmerman
1 On dim. 23 févr. 11:11:31 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2 > emerge-webrsync has just eaten my /usr/portage :-( ;-(
3 >
4 > I let it run unattended. When I came back I saw first some complaints
5 > from rsync about "vanished" files ... something like
6 >
7 > /usr/portage/_build has vanished before it could be transferred
8 >
9 > and under that portage breaking all over because things in /usr/portage
10 > were missing. And indeed when I look now, almost everything is gone -
11 > all subdirectories including profiles/ and eclass/ are empty (not
12 > distfiles/ but that is not surprising).
13 >
14 > Not a hardware problem - there are no syslog messages about i/o errors.
15 >
16 > What has happened and how can I fix it?
17
18 I don’t know what could have caused that, but I think that you can try
19 to sync again, or to use a regular rsync with pgp verification, cf.
20 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base for the
21 configuration to use.
22
23 --
24 Alarig