Re: [gentoo-user] From rsync to git: sync-uri is invalid: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> [17-01-29 07:56]:
> Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > To switch from rsync to git I am following the steps described here
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/3i141w/now_that_portage_is_using_git_how_do_i_git_pull/
> >
> > The last step I did was  "mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old ; emerge
> > sync" and I got:
> >
> > solfire:/usr>emerge --sync
> >>>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
> > !!! sync-uri is invalid: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
> >
> > As fas as I know, this is the uri Joost uses...
> >
> > Hmmm....why does portage thinks, this uri is wrong?
> > (...and how can I fix it?)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Meino
> >
> >
>
> May want to look at this link.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf&oldid=378294
>
>
> Maybe that will give better results, not that I see anything wrong with
> what you have myself.  BTW, I did a forum search, make sure you don't
> have other files in /etc/portage/repos.conf.  It seems that if you have
> more than one, it takes the last one and runs with it.  Someone else had
> gentoo.conf.bak and it was reading it instead of gentoo.conf.  It sort
> of works like package.use and such.  Make sense?  I'm beat over here.  lol
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Hi Dale,

thanks for your very helpful reply! :)

Not to have *.bak and such under.../repos.conf/... does the trick.

Would be nice, if emerge would only read files *.conf instead of
everything...

Have a nice weekend! :)
Cheers
Meino