Why emerge --sync updates the Manifest of all the packages?

yzg · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 493

Today emerge --sync updates the Manifest of every package. It is running for more than a hour and did not finish yet.

Do you know what is the reason for this?

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:04 pm Post subject:

I thought the Manifests came with the sync - this includes the checksums for the ebuilds to make sure nothing got corrupted from the download. Are your manifest files clean from last sync? Virus touched or deleted your Manifest files?
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What am I supposed watching?

yzg · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 493

I do not know but I thought it is wholesale update to the portage Manifest files.

kurly · Apprentice Joined: 02 Apr 2012 Posts: 260

Infra has been testing a lot of changes lately, using the primary copy of the tree as the test bed. (The Manifest changes are related to the thickening process necessitated by the CVS->git backend change.) In short, you haven't done anything wrong, and expect this to happen every once in a while until it doesn't happen anymore.

yzg · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 493

Genone · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:32 am Post subject:

Unfortunately for many things there is no practical alternative.