Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:22 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from > > /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you need > > to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken. > > Indeed. And the failure that produces is not at all graceful. > > I spent a little time trying to figure out where in the Wiki or docs > that the rsync -> git migration steps should be documented, but I > didn't find anyplace that looked like the right home for that info. > Moving from rsync to git probably doesn't require re-selecting the profile. However, if you move the path of the repository itself then that would require re-selecting the profile regardless of whether the method of syncing is changed. I got the impression from your email that you moved the repository when you switched. If you ONLY renamed the old one but kept the same exact path, then after it pulled the new repo the profile should have remained working as far as I am aware. If I'm understanding the situation, then the correct place to put this in the wiki is in any section pertaining to moving the repository (such as to /var/db or whatever). It wouldn't hurt to make a note in any instructions for switching to git to be aware of the requirement if the opportunity is taken to move the repository at the same time. It is a pretty logical time to do this. The error messages may very well have been misleading though. Portage is a bit infamous for misleading error messages. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:18 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from > /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you > need > to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken. Ah, that would be it. Thanks for explaining, I never knew how the profile was actually handled. Good to know.
[gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM Matt Connell > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > no profile selected >> >> I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. >> Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point >> and removed from the list? >> > > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from > /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you need > to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken. Indeed. And the failure that produces is not at all graceful. I spent a little time trying to figure out where in the Wiki or docs that the rsync -> git migration steps should be documented, but I didn't find anyplace that looked like the right home for that info. > Probably doesn't need to be a symlink, or in the repo, which is I'm > guessing how funtoo does mix-ins though I haven't actually checked > (just create a custom profile with the appropriate parent entries). > The Gentoo standard though is a symlink.
[gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On 2021-10-13, Matt Connell wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> no profile selected > > I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. I had a profile selected. > Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point > and removed from the list? I assume that 'mv /usr/portage /usr/portage-old' cause my profile selecttion to "go away". > > >
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM Matt Connell wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > no profile selected > > I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. > Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point > and removed from the list? > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you need to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken. Probably doesn't need to be a symlink, or in the repo, which is I'm guessing how funtoo does mix-ins though I haven't actually checked (just create a custom profile with the appropriate parent entries). The Gentoo standard though is a symlink. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > no profile selected I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point and removed from the list?
Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?
On Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 at 19:39, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Portage should tell you why in the mask message! me dumb. i had to go all over the interwebs to get told by someone in another continent that the answer is already written right in the next line in my very same terminal. lel.
[gentoo-user] compton got masked?
why? ty, cm.
[gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On 2021-10-12, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 4:02 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Despite what multiple blog and wiki pages claim, it seems it's not as >> simple as editing you gentoo.conf file. Do I need to wipe the contents >> of /usr/portage and start with an emptry directory there? > > I believe so. I'd just rename the directory and let it get > re-created. Then you can delete the old one when you are confident > you don't need it. Yep, I renamed the old one, switched the repo conf to the new /var/db location, and let emrge --sync clone a new repo directory using git. The 'git clone' finished OK, but the sync still failed (with a very obtuse Python exception and stack dump) when it got to the news processing step. After a bit of googling I found a hint that failure happens when there is no profile selected. I ran 'eselet profile set N'. After that, the sync completed OK. That seems like something that should be documented somewhere... I'll see if I can find an appropriate spot in the Wiki.
Re: [gentoo-user] Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 4:02 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > Despite what multiple blog and wiki pages claim, it seems it's not as > simple as editing you gentoo.conf file. Do I need to wipe the contents > of /usr/portage and start with an emptry directory there? I believe so. I'd just rename the directory and let it get re-created. Then you can delete the old one when you are confident you don't need it. -- Rich
[gentoo-user] Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
How do you migrate from rsync to git for 'emerge --sync'? I changed my /etc/porttage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf file as shown in various places, but when I try to do a sync, git barfs: # emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... /usr/bin/git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git . fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory. !!! git clone error in /usr/portage Despite what multiple blog and wiki pages claim, it seems it's not as simple as editing you gentoo.conf file. Do I need to wipe the contents of /usr/portage and start with an emptry directory there?
Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 07:32:09PM +, caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: > why? > > ty, > cm. > Why not? It's a dead project that was forked as x11-misc/picom (aka same codebase except it has an active upstream). Compton itself was also a fork, there's long history of such and it's better to just move on. -- ionen signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 2:32 PM caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > why? > >From [1]: Development stopped by upstream. Switch to its actively developed fork, x11-misc/picom. Regards. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/package.mask#n77 -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?
caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 schrieb am 12.10.21 um 21:32: why? ty, cm. Portage should tell you why in the mask message! https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/d9f2e6c5b001239852b1c686bbab026b -- Regards Daniel
