[ME TOO] Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-08-02 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Neil, On Sunday, 2022-07-31 21:43:12 +0100, you wrote: > ... > I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked > back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than > using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there. The replies from

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-08-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 August 2022 10:43:55 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-08-01 07:58+0100 Michael wrote: > > […] > > > > 2. These days rsync uses hashes and gpg to check the integrity of > > portage and will flag up a warning in case of file tampering, or > > corrupt data. As far as I know such a

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-08-01 Thread tastytea
On 2022-08-01 07:58+0100 Michael wrote: > […] > > 2. These days rsync uses hashes and gpg to check the integrity of > portage and will flag up a warning in case of file tampering, or > corrupt data. As far as I know such a solution doesn't exist with > git. Verification can be turned on with

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-08-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:58:05 +0100, Michael wrote: > 1. It used to be the case the first time you run git it would try to > download GB of commits history and take ages to do so on a slow > connection. The solution used to be to add "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" > in your make.conf, but I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-08-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 August 2022 06:09:07 BST n952162 wrote: > On 7/31/22 21:51, n952162 wrote: > > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, > > it's really a painful process. > > > > The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. > > > > I try

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread n952162
On 7/31/22 21:51, n952162 wrote: I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, it's really a painful process. The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a while, then doesn't, then later,

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Lee
Given the speed improvement in using git for --sync, I wonder why that isn't the default in the portage section of the manual On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 4:49 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:43:12 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I switched to using git for syncing, from

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:43:12 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked > back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than > using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there. One thing to note, if

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 15:55:51 -0700, Lee wrote: > Had a similar issue to the OP, and it turned out to be a flaky internet > connection. I switched ISP's and, while sync's still take longer than > I'd like, I don't have the failures, time outs I did before. I have no complaints about the time

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Lee
Had a similar issue to the OP, and it turned out to be a flaky internet connection. I switched ISP's and, while sync's still take longer than I'd like, I don't have the failures, time outs I did before. On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 1:54 PM Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > Sonntag, 31. Juli 2022 21:51: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
Sonntag, 31. Juli 2022 21:51:   > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, > it's really a painful process. > The process can take *very* [long] before you find out if it succeeded or not. ... > It can take several hours before it finally works   Use a tool like

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:51:05 +0200, n952162 wrote: > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, > it's really a painful process. > > The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. > > I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, > it's really a painful process. > > The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. > > I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a while, then > doesn't, then later, the new

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread Jack
On 7/31/22 15:51, n952162 wrote: I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, it's really a painful process. The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a while, then doesn't, then later,

[gentoo-user] --sync

2022-07-31 Thread n952162
I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, it's really a painful process. The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a while, then doesn't, then later, the new one doesn't work anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] sync-type: rsync vs git

2022-04-27 Thread Wol
On 27/04/2022 16:18, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:22 AM Grant Edwards wrote: Is there any advantage (either to me or the Gentoo community) to continue to use rsync and the rsync pool instead of switching the rest of my machines to git? I've been very impressed with the

Re: [gentoo-user] sync-type: rsync vs git

2022-04-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:22 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > Is there any advantage (either to me or the Gentoo community) to > continue to use rsync and the rsync pool instead of switching the > rest of my machines to git? > > I've been very impressed with the reliability and speed of sync >

[gentoo-user] sync-type: rsync vs git

2022-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
A while back I switched one of my machines sync-type for the gentoo repo from rsync to git using https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git because that machine is behind a firewall that stopped allowing rsync connections. Is there any advantage (either to me or the Gentoo community) to

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/02/2018 11:38:54 AM, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:11:38 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Luigi Mantellini
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/645194 should be solved by last portage (maybe). ciao luigi On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Luigi Mantellini < luigi.mantellini...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think a trouble with ipv6. > For now I disabled at all the portage tree verification adding >

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Floyd Anderson
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:11:38 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Luigi Mantellini
I think a trouble with ipv6. For now I disabled at all the portage tree verification adding "sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no" to repos.conf ciao luigi On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot run emerge --sync > I always get > > >

[gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 gpg: Can't check signature: No public key What might have been happened? Many

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-28 Thread the guard
Среда, 27 марта 2013, 18:09 UTC от Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de: Hi, Gentoo! Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:48:21PM +0400, the guard wrote: Среда, 27 марта 2013, 18:09 UTC от Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de: Hi, Gentoo! Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be new perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-28 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 28/03/13 11:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:48:21PM +0400, the guard wrote: Среда, 27 марта 2013, 18:09 UTC от Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de: Hi, Gentoo! Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and got a list of ~100 packages to merge.

[gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that. Most worrying is sys-fs/udisks-2.1.0. Should I be worried about this

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Nick wrote: Hi there, I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with only what she needs etc. Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just keep itself working and secure. So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-20 Thread Nick
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:50:04AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Nick wrote: So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job, perhaps once a week. I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should

[gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Nick
Hi there, I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with only what she needs etc. Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just keep itself working and secure. So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job,

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Joshua Doll
Nick wrote: Hi there, I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with only what she needs etc. Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just keep itself working and secure. So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 17:18:45 Nick wrote: So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job, perhaps once a week. I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 17:26:15 Joshua Doll wrote: Nick wrote: I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools from a cron job? Oh, and I forgot to mention it in my other direct reply: You'll probably

[gentoo-user] Sync only installed and dependence packages with portage.

2005-06-13 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, As the title suggested, I've got a box with very limited disk space, is it possible to sync only the packages currently installed and their dependencies with the portage tree and leave out the rest? TIA. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... --

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync only installed and dependence packages with portage.

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: Hi, As the title suggested, I've got a box with very limited disk space, is it possible to sync only the packages currently installed and their dependencies with the portage tree and leave out the rest? TIA. -- Joe Hi, I don't think so, but I don't think it makes