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pappy_mcfae
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 9:51 am    Post subject: emerge --sync complaining about /usr/portage/.git existing Reply with quote

My cursory search has been fruitless, so here's the issue. When I type emerge --sync, I get the following:
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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).


Has Gentoo gone to git like funtoo? If not, then why was a /usr/portage/.git directory delivered with last night's update? If there is a choice, I'd much prefer git. Just let me know how to set it up. Thanks.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i experienced the same thing yesterday - and just deleted /usr/portage/.git (hasn't reappeared since).
my guess is that someone with write-perms just accidentally put the dir there. i also guess that switching portage to git would deserve some kind of announcement :wink:
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://infra-status.gentoo.org/notice/20151129-rsync
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As detailed at https://infra-status.gentoo.org/notice/20151129-rsync this was a bug in the rsync tree generation.

The bug is now fixed, but you still need to manually remove the .git directory once.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome. That was quick.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dilfridge,
dilfridge wrote:
The bug is now fixed, but you still need to manually remove the .git directory once.
The bug as such may be fixed, but in my view the handling of the sync problem from emerge was not in line with standard unix practices: If, for whatever reason, a command fails (and in my view this clearly was a failure), the command should return with a non-zero exit code. Despite that the return code was zero and therefore the problem went unnoticed for a number of days in my automated script.

I don't know whether that's a big deal to change, but exiting with a proper return code would have been nice and should probably be amended in order to avoid this in the future.

Thanks Atom2
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the info, I had that problem last night.

Time to sync my box :P
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