[gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[Timothy Robinson]

I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script.
I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has 
more
space than the root filesystem.  Everytime I do an emerge sync, it 
overwrites
this and creates a directory.  A simple change to the rsync exclude 
statements
would fix this problem.  Have a look.

This:

mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete 
--delete-after --exclude='distfiles/*' --exclude='packages/*' "

would be changed to this:

mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete 
--delete-after --exclude='/distfiles/' --exclude='/packages/' "

Thanks for the consideration,
Timothy Robinson


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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[skaar]

* Timothy Robinson (tdrobinson@huli.org) [021207 13:44]:
> I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script.
> I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has 
> more

or you could set DISTDIR/PKGDIR in make.conf

/skaar

> space than the root filesystem.  Everytime I do an emerge sync, it 
> overwrites
> this and creates a directory.  A simple change to the rsync exclude 
> statements
> would fix this problem.  Have a look.
> 
> This:
> 
> mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete 
> --delete-after --exclude='distfiles/*' --exclude='packages/*' "
> 
> would be changed to this:
> 
> mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete 
> --delete-after --exclude='/distfiles/' --exclude='/packages/' "
> 
> Thanks for the consideration,
> Timothy Robinson
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 07 December 2002 13:38, Timothy Robinson wrote:
> I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script.
> I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has
> more
> space than the root filesystem.  Everytime I do an emerge sync, it
> overwrites
> this and creates a directory.  A simple change to the rsync exclude
> statements
> would fix this problem.  Have a look.

or you could simply do a mount bind on that directory ...
mount -o bind /path/to/other/distdir /usr/portage/distdir

or you could do as skaar says and set DISTDIR in your make.conf ...

the reason we enabled --delete is because old ebuilds and packages would 
accumulate in users portage directory causing bugs to creep up that were 
taken care of
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[Timothy Robinson]

Mike Frysinger wrote:

>On Saturday 07 December 2002 13:38, Timothy Robinson wrote:
>  
>
>>I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script.
>>I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has
>>more
>>space than the root filesystem.  Everytime I do an emerge sync, it
>>overwrites
>>this and creates a directory.  A simple change to the rsync exclude
>>statements
>>would fix this problem.  Have a look.
>>    
>>
>
>or you could simply do a mount bind on that directory ...
>mount -o bind /path/to/other/distdir /usr/portage/distdir
>
>or you could do as skaar says and set DISTDIR in your make.conf ...
>
>the reason we enabled --delete is because old ebuilds and packages would 
>accumulate in users portage directory causing bugs to creep up that were 
>taken care of
>-mike
>
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>
I understand that there are different ways to fix my specific problem.
I think that the proposed exclude syntax to rsync is correct for what
needs to be accomplished, which is to leave the distdir and packages
directories alone.  The current syntax will leave everything underneath
these directories alone, but not the directories themselves.  If that is
what the maintainers desire, then so be it.  But if not, I have given
the suggested changes.

Thanks,
Timothy


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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[Mike Frysinger]

> I understand that there are different ways to fix my specific problem.
> I think that the proposed exclude syntax to rsync is correct for what
> needs to be accomplished, which is to leave the distdir and packages
> directories alone.  The current syntax will leave everything underneath
> these directories alone, but not the directories themselves.  If that is
> what the maintainers desire, then so be it.  But if not, I have given
> the suggested changes.

to be honest we already provide the 'proper' way to do this and that is to set 
the variables in make.conf ... `man make.conf` for the exact variables.

as such i dont believe changing the way rsync is currently run is needed
-mike

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