On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 02:28:09 BST John Covici wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:42:29 -0400, > > Michael wrote: > > > > 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.
It was some inordinate time ago - can't recall when exactly. It was after portage started using gpg with rsync and quarantined any fetched files after they were downloaded until their signatures were validated. As I understood at the time the difference with using git was it would only check the top commit in the repository had a valid signature, but not what eventually landed at the local PC. Also, even to do this check it required you have enabled "sync-git-verify-commit-signature = yes" - but according to 'man portage' it defaults to "no". Anyhow, I recall using git to sync a live ebuild -9999 from some repo and portage started downloading gigabytes of cruft. Presumably whole decades of old commits I didn't need or have space for. I subsequently discovered I had to set "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" in make.conf, but I can't find this variable in the man page now. I suppose/hope portage using git will only download more recent commits?
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