On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:20:15 +1200 Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 April 2015 at 15:07, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > > Perhaps the slashdot effect of everybody almost at once needing to > > delete and (re)add their overlays in layman, thus forcing a new > > clone, > > > > Eh? That seems incredibly wrong for git. > > git remote set-url master <newurl> > > Would handle the git side. > > You can even tweak git to rewrite all urls for you, like: > > [url "git://anongit.gentoo.org"] > insteadOf = git://git.overlays.gentoo.org > > Admittedly it may have been hard for layman to be intelligent about > this, but requiring everyone to remove/add simply for a URI change > strikes me as rather odd here. > > No, layman does try to update the url first, failing that it deletes/re-adds it. But I think what happened for some, was, the urls had not yet been updated or updated correctly in repositories.xml. That resulted in failures to update to a new valid url. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
