Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

[Mick]

On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 13:18:18 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:33:19 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > I would rather not disable portage verification, but fix what's wrong
> > with one PC.
>
> If you are running multiple Gentoo PCs on the same network, it would make
> sense to use one as a portage mirror, then you only need verification on
> that PC. Not that this fixes your problem, I'd start by looking at
> differences in make.conf between the systems, are they using the same
> mirrors? Are there any differences in RSYNC* settings?

Thanks Neil, when on my LAN I use one PC as a local mirror, when away I use 
public gentoo mirrors.  The verification is failing when sync'ing with either.

Your pointer for RSYNC* proved useful.  At some point in the past I must have 
decided rsync was taking an awful long time sync'ing the games directories.  
Since I don't emerge or play games I had added this entry in my make.conf:

$ grep RSYNC_ /etc/make.conf
PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"

$ cat /etc/portage/rsync_excludes
games-*/*

Once I commented this option out the verification succeeded.  So ... this 
verification problem seems to be caused by my intentional exclusion of games 
from sync'ing.

Does this mean I won't be able to exclude games hereafter if I want to verify 
portage's contents, or is there a different approach required?

-- 
Regards,
Mick