On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:43 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2018-07-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Now that the public key stuff is working again (knock on wood), I'm > > curious if it's usual for an emerge --sync to take 10-15 minutes > > longer than it used due to the "Verifying /usr/portage" step. > > > > On some systems (with fewer packages installed) it only takes a minute > > or less. But, on my "main" desktop system it takes 10-15 minutes every > > time. > > I cleared out /usr/portage/distfiles, and the verify time dropped to > about 10 seconds. I should probably do that more often... >
Assuming it is reproducible it is probably a bug. That said, I always move distfiles to someplace like /var/cache. I guess /usr/portage should probably be in there as well, though I would not mix my distfiles with my repository for a number of reasons. I think it is just inertia preserving the current situation as I can't imagine anybody involved in portage/council/etc really would design it this way today. You can tweak this in make.conf with DISTDIR=... -- Rich
