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 <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > 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 you do change to git syncing, is that you'll have to > delete your entire portage tree: 'rm -r /var/db/repos/portage'. That may > seem > like a bad idea if you're having sync problems, but it isn't really. After > that, the sync will take just seconds, as Neil said. > > You'll never look back. > > -- > Regards, > Peter. > > > > > -- Lee 😎 <ny6...@gmail.com>
