On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:38:52 +0100, Mick wrote: > Your pointer for RSYNC* proved useful. At some point in the past I > must have decided rsync was taking an awful long time sync'ing the > games directories. Since I don't emerge or play games I had added this > entry in my make.conf: > > $ grep RSYNC_ /etc/make.conf > PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3" > PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" > > $ cat /etc/portage/rsync_excludes > games-*/*
I wondered if it might be something like that. > Once I commented this option out the verification succeeded. So ... > this verification problem seems to be caused by my intentional > exclusion of games from sync'ing. > > Does this mean I won't be able to exclude games hereafter if I want to > verify portage's contents, or is there a different approach required? As long as it only fails on verification of games-* I don't see a problem, unless you are relying on a zero return code from emerge --sync. Does gasmes-* still take a long time to sync? I wouldn't have thought there would be a lot of changes in there compared with other sections, such as kde-*. -- Neil Bothwick If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
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