On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:38:20 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Holger Hoffstätte >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> After today's update to ~portage-2.2.21 rsync gives more more than I >>> asked for on repo update; it seems rsync_excludes is no longer read >>> or observed. >>> >>> It's specified in PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS and of course the file >>> with the exclusions exists etc. This has worked for aeons. >>> >>> Does anybody know what's up here? The release notes don't mention >>> anything related (or I missed it). >> >> rsync has no option called rsync_excludes. Exactly what options are >> you specifying in PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS? > > No, it hasn't - I understand that. I understand rsync better than I > want to, trust me.. :) > > $grep RSYNC /etc/portage/make.conf > PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--compress > --exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" > > This is the way documented on the Gentoo wiki, and broke today (with .21). > Hence I was thinking that maybe this now needs to go into the repos.conf > config or got broken some other way. Just figured I ask before filing an > unnecessary bug.
I was going to try and reproduce it, but if you are certain it happened as a result of upgrading portage just go ahead and file the bug.

