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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:04 pm    Post subject: portage appears to be under revision control (contains .git) Reply with quote

I'm trying to install Gentoo in a local disk but in the part "Configuring Portage" I have a problem with
Code:
# 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:
Code:
[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.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same here.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same here.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ditto ...

ls -ld ~portdir/.git*:
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
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same problem here :

Code:

>>> 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 ?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I finally downladed the last tarball of portage.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

same here...
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:19 pm    Post subject: Solved? Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanx Helena!!!!
In my case issue solved by "rm -R /usr/portage/.git"
(repos.conf was still there)
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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...
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Solved? Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@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.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

seems fixed @ my repo
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same here.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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A temporary problem, as I would have expected.


nonetheless, this kind of bush league BS give gentoo a bad name
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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".
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@Tony & albright,
You never make mistakes?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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


NEVER in the finished product submitted to the client. It's always been thoroughly tested.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

same here.


This configuration at first sync fails
Code:
[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
Code:
[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"
Code:
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

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


still works 8O

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gerard82 wrote:
@Tony & albright,
You never make mistakes?
Gerard.
Pushing untested stuff straight to deployment isn't a mistake; it's straight-up negligence.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

darkbasic wrote:
I switched to git

This does not belong to this thread
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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.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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