[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/

[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/

[Zac Medico]

commit:     e398a453a62490fd3ff168887f761e0c91ab50e9
Author:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sun Jul  8 05:51:09 2018 +0000
Commit:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Wed Jul 11 08:54:05 2018 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=e398a453

2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks: Add

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/660410

 .../2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt b/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d64f0cb
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@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Title: Portage rsync hardlink support
+Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
+Posted: 2018-07-11
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 2.0
+Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage
+
+For users of the rsync tree, beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.3.42,
+the default behavior for sync operations will use hardlinks in order
+to ensure that a repository remains in a valid state if something
+goes wrong [1]. For example, if signature verification fails during a
+sync operation, the new hardlink behavior will preserve the previous
+state of the repository.
+
+The new behavior may conflict with configurations that restrict the
+use of hardlinks, such as overlay filesystems. Therefore, users will
+have to set "sync-allow-hardlinks = no" in repos.conf if they have
+a configuration that restricts the use of hardlinks, but this should
+not be very common:
+
+[DEFAULT]
+sync-allow-hardlinks = no
+
+Note that it is possible to sync more efficiently using git [2]
+instead of rsync, though git consumes an increasing amount of disk
+space over time unless shallow pull is enabled via the sync-depth
+option in repos.conf [3] (requires sys-apps/portage-2.3.42 or later).
+
+[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/660410 sys-apps/portage: use rsync
+    --link-dest to implement atomic repository updates (and abort if
+    signature verification fails)
+[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_Security#git-mirror_repo
+[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/552814 sys-apps/portage: support shallow
+    git pull by setting sync-depth = 1 in repos.conf

[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/

[Zac Medico]

commit:     27a88259e99ef93cf6045a6ee3e3e31722c33c3a
Author:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue Jun  4 18:35:48 2019 +0000
Commit:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue Jun  4 18:35:59 2019 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=27a88259

2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks: suppress for fresh installs

Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo.org>

 .../2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt                      | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt b/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt
index d64f0cb..18dc6b3 100644
--- a/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt
+++ b/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
 Posted: 2018-07-11
 Revision: 1
 News-Item-Format: 2.0
-Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage
+Display-If-Installed: <sys-apps/portage-2.3.62
 
 For users of the rsync tree, beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.3.42,
 the default behavior for sync operations will use hardlinks in order