On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:42:29 -0400,
Michael wrote:
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> On Monday, 2 August 2021 22:17:35 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:01:40 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > > > I have this problem every month. Why does it fail? Is it just a
> > > > timeout because my network is slow? Can that be tweaked?
> > >
> > > I get this problem over here, but on rare occasions. Leaving it for
> > > half a day usually fixes it. Have you tried a different rsync mirror?
> > > You can use 'mirrorselect -i -r' for this task.
> >
> > I used to see this from time to time, but then I switched to using git
> > instead of rsync and haven't seen it again. There's the added bonus that
> > syncing is MUCH faster too.
>
> Last time I looked at git for portage it was not not using gpg to verify the
> downloaded data - has this feature been added since then?
I don't know when you last looked, but I see it checking the signature
when downloading from git.
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