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On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:38:52 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> Your pointer for RSYNC* proved useful. At some point in the past I |
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> must have decided rsync was taking an awful long time sync'ing the |
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> games directories. Since I don't emerge or play games I had added this |
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> entry in my make.conf: |
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> $ grep RSYNC_ /etc/make.conf |
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> PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3" |
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> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" |
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> $ cat /etc/portage/rsync_excludes |
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> games-*/* |
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I wondered if it might be something like that. |
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> Once I commented this option out the verification succeeded. So ... |
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> this verification problem seems to be caused by my intentional |
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> exclusion of games from sync'ing. |
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> Does this mean I won't be able to exclude games hereafter if I want to |
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> verify portage's contents, or is there a different approach required? |
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As long as it only fails on verification of games-* I don't see a |
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problem, unless you are relying on a zero return code from emerge --sync. |
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Does gasmes-* still take a long time to sync? I wouldn't have thought |
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there would be a lot of changes in there compared with other sections, |
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such as kde-*. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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