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On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:51:05 +0200, n952162 wrote: |
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> I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, |
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> it's really a painful process. |
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> The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. |
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> I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a while, then |
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> doesn't, then later, the new one doesn't work anymore and the old one |
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> works again. |
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I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked |
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back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than |
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using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there. |
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% cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf |
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[DEFAULT] |
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main-repo = gentoo |
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[gentoo] |
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priority = 20 |
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location = /var/portage |
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sync-type = git |
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sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo |
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auto-sync = yes |
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