Florian Schmaus posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:40:19 +0100 as excerpted: > On 15/12/2022 21.10, Toralf Förster wrote: >> On 12/15/22 20:22, Florian Schmaus wrote: >>> o use PORTDIR_OVERLAY and multiple repositories on their system: a >>> system-wide, managed by portage, and a dev repository (in your HOME), >>> scoped in via PORTDIR_OVERLAY. >> >> Isn't this covered by /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > > Absolutely, but this requires a manual intervention from the user. And, > of course, you can totally opt-out from portage managing (syncing) the > repository, but then you have to take care of syncing yourself. > > The point is that with the new portage release, portage's behavior > changes. And I would argue that portage should not, in its effort to > become more user friendly, disregard ebuild-developer friendliness. > Assuming it is achievable with a reasonable amount of additional code > complexity.
This bit me too, and making things worse, the truncate killed the git history that presumably had the answer I needed to fix it up. =:^( Fortunately I had a bit of a clue due to preemptively following the portage changelog where I had seen a hint, so I was able to dig it up again without the git log help that's definitely now my first instinct. Long story short and for the record, manual intervention indeed and I wish it had at least come with a news item, but here's the magic that fixed it for me. I had one of these previously, IIRC clone depth, but both are now needed. I put these in the [DEFAULT] section here because I run several overlays and I "want" access to proper git logs and history by default. (FWIW "want" is the polite, cooled down, version; the situation was considerably more sweary when I lost that history and instinctively I tried to look in the git history for why, but of course it was GONE!) repos.conf, [DEFAULT] (or [gentoo]) section: clone-depth = 0 sync-depth = 0 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
