portage appears to be under revision control (contains .git)

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simonbcn · Post by **simonbcn** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:04 pm

I'm trying to install Gentoo in a local disk but in the part "Configuring Portage" I have a problem with

# emerge --sync
>>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
!!! /usr/portage appears to be under revision control (contains .git).
!!! Aborting rsync sync.

My gentoo.conf file in repos.conf is:

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[DEFAULT] 
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = rsync
sync-uri = rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/
auto-sync = yes

After I delete the .git* folders and files "emerge --sync" works but it downloads again .git* files and folders, the next "emerge --sync" throws again the same error. I guess it must be an error of mirroring of git repository central but I don't see any information about this error in Internet. In my server I have installed Gentoo since a long time and today the same problem is happening.

CaptainBlood · Post by **CaptainBlood** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:08 pm

Same here.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.

dsiggi · Post by **dsiggi** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:11 pm

Same here.

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:26 pm

ditto ...

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drwxr-xr-x 7 portage portage 4096 2015-11-29 05:28 /var/pkg/gentoo/.git/
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage   67 2015-08-13 03:31 /var/pkg/gentoo/.gitignore

best ... khay

cyrius · Post by **cyrius** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:29 pm

Same problem here :

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>>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
!!! /usr/portage appears to be under revision control (contains .git).
!!! Aborting rsync sync (override with "sync-rsync-vcs-ignore = true" in repos.conf).

 * IMPORTANT: 3 config files in '/etc' need updating.
 * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
 * man page to learn how to update config files.

 * IMPORTANT: 20 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news read to view new items.

What's happening ?

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:38 pm

cyrius wrote:What's happening?

cyrius ... the sky is falling ;) ... someone made an error when making a commit I suspect, wait, I'll get fixed.

best ... khay

cyrius · Post by **cyrius** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:39 pm

I finally downladed the last tarball of portage.

papandreoos · Post by **papandreoos** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:34 pm

same here...

Helena · Post by **Helena** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:19 pm

Thanks to this forum post I discovered a solution (so far). In my case important files were suddenly missing.

After reading https://oper.io/?p=gentoo:converting_portage_to_git i decided to check my repos.conf file and found out that it had disappeared. In fact the entire directory /etc/portage/repos.conf was gone. After recreating this directory and then the file by

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cp /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf /etc/portage/repos.conf

I started removing all .git directories form /usr/portage it is now back to normal.

Pearlseattle · Post by **Pearlseattle** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:28 pm

Thanx Helena!!!!
In my case issue solved by "rm -R /usr/portage/.git"
(repos.conf was still there)

ShALLaX · Post by **ShALLaX** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:33 pm

That's not really a solution, that's just switching back to using Git. The problem is that the rsync mirrors have been polluted with some git metadata by, presumably, an accidental commit. It'll get fixed soon enough, but it's probably made it onto loads of production Gentoo installations by now...

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:39 pm

Helena wrote:After reading https://oper.io/?p=gentoo:converting_portage_to_git i decided to check my repos.conf file and found out that it had disappeared. In fact the entire directory /etc/portage/repos.conf was gone. After recreating this directory and then the file [...] I started removing all .git directories form /usr/portage it is now back to normal.

Helena ... I don't think those issues are related, I'm not sure why you think they are. Note that in the OP simonbcn also removed .git but they are replaced on the next --sync ... so, its unlikely this is not also the case for you. The issue, which I can say has only occured in the past 24hrs (as I'm similarly effected), is entirely to do with things on the rsync repo you're syncing from and so its out of your control.

best ... khay

pigeon768 · Post by **pigeon768** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:13 pm

https://infra-status.gentoo.org/ wrote:If you have synced your tree via rsync in the last 24 hours, you may have gotten a stray .git directory in your tree resulting in the following error:

No need to worry. Just delete the .git directory and everything is fine.

Helena · Post by **Helena** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:24 pm

@pigeon768: Ah I see. A temporary problem, as I would have expected.

@khayyam: you could be right. There is no way I can tell. Thanks.

CaptainBlood · Post by **CaptainBlood** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:04 pm

seems fixed @ my repo

SarahS93 · Post by **SarahS93** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:22 am

Same here.

albright · Post by **albright** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:27 pm

A temporary problem, as I would have expected.

nonetheless, this kind of bush league BS give gentoo a bad name

Tony0945 · Post by **Tony0945** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:34 pm

albright wrote:
nonetheless, this kind of bush league BS give gentoo a bad name

More and more of this sort of thing lately. I believe it's caused by what we used to call "cowboy programmers".

gerard27 · Post by **gerard27** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:45 pm

@Tony & albright,
You never make mistakes?
Gerard.

Tony0945 · Post by **Tony0945** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:56 pm

gerard82 wrote:@Tony & albright,
You never make mistakes?
Gerard.

NEVER in the finished product submitted to the client. It's always been thoroughly tested.

sabayonino · Post by **sabayonino** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:27 pm

same here.

This configuration at first sync fails

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[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git
auto-sync = yes

but renaming "gentoo" module (e.g. : gentoo-1 or something else) , works

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[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo-1

[gentoo-1]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git
auto-sync = yes

back to "gentoo"

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[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git
auto-sync = yes

still works

kurly · Post by **kurly** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:32 pm

gerard82 wrote:@Tony & albright,
You never make mistakes?
Gerard.

Pushing untested stuff straight to deployment isn't a mistake; it's straight-up negligence.

darkbasic · Post by **darkbasic** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:03 am

I switched to git and run "emaint -a" but now if I run eix-update I get "eix reading category empty" on [0] "gentoo"

I already removed /var/cache/eix but it didn't help, any idea?

mv · Post by mv » Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:41 am

darkbasic wrote:I switched to git

This does not belong to this thread

and run "emaint -a" but now if I run eix-update I get "eix reading category empty" on [0] "gentoo"

With git, you have to create the metadata cache locally by using egencache --update --repo=gentoo. IIRC, you can activate this by editing some example postsync-hook files. Probably there is a howto somewhere.

darkbasic · Post by **darkbasic** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:08 pm

mv wrote:
darkbasic wrote:I switched to git
This does not belong to this thread

I'm sorry, but I got tired of rsync and after the "contains .git" error I saw this thread and I decided to switch.
Your suggestion did help, I'm using the postsync hooks now. Are there any downsides? Does it support portage news? Last time I heard it didn't.

portage appears to be under revision control (contains .git)

portage appears to be under revision control (contains .git)

Solved?

Re: Solved?