[gentoo-user] /etc/portage

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage

[Arnau Bria]

Hi,

I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files
under /etc/portage:

# ls -lsa
total 36
[...]
4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 nov 20 22:42 bin
4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d
4 drwxrwsr-x  2 root portage 4096 oct 27  2004 sets

I'm comparing them with same dir in my work pc and those files/dires
are not present... The sync difference between them is about a week...

Anyone could explain me what are this files for?

(contents of each dir/file):
# cat bin/post_sync
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2006-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

if [ -d /etc/portage/postsync.d/ ]; then
        for f in /etc/portage/postsync.d/* ; do
                if [ -x ${f} ] ; then
                        ${f}
                fi
        done
else
        :
fi

# cat postsync.d/q-reinitialize
[ -x /usr/bin/q ] && /usr/bin/q -r

# cat postsync.d/q-reinitialize
[ -x /usr/bin/q ] && /usr/bin/q -r

Cheers!
Arnau

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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 24 November 2006 12:48, Arnau Bria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files
> under /etc/portage:
>
> # ls -lsa
> total 36
> [...]
> 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 nov 20 22:42 bin
> 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d
> 4 drwxrwsr-x  2 root portage 4096 oct 27  2004 sets
>
> I'm comparing them with same dir in my work pc and those files/dires
> are not present... The sync difference between them is about a
> week...
>
> Anyone could explain me what are this files for?

It would appear that portage put them there, on my system they were 
probably created around Aug 21. What the files do is:

- bin contains a script called post-sync
- it looks for a directory called postsync.d and if it finds executables 
there, it executes them all.
- Currently the only script there is q-reinitialize, which runs q -r
- Running q shows:
  -r, --reinitialize   * Reinitialize ebuild cache

So, without even having to look into the portage source, I can predict 
that this gets run after emerge --sync and it's purpose it to easily 
automate things like reinitializing the ebuild cache without having to 
hard code it into portage

Strangely enough, no package claims ownership of these files:

nazgul portage # equery belongs /etc/portage/bin/post_sync
[ Searching for file(s) /etc/portage/bin/post_sync in *... ]
nazgul portage #


alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 24 November 2006 11:48, Arnau Bria wrote:
> I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files
> under /etc/portage:
>
> # ls -lsa
> total 36
> [...]
> 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 nov 20 22:42 bin
> 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d

They are added in pkg_postinst() by the app-portage/portage-utils ebuilds.

> 4 drwxrwsr-x  2 root portage 4096 oct 27  2004 sets

This appears to be an orphaned file.

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Bo Andresen

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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 24 November 2006 12:13, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Strangely enough, no package claims ownership of these files:
>
> nazgul portage # equery belongs /etc/portage/bin/post_sync
> [ Searching for file(s) /etc/portage/bin/post_sync in *... ]
> nazgul portage #

That's because it is created in the pkg_postinst() phase after the list of 
files installed by portage-utils (the CONTENTS file) has been created. I 
consider that a bug.

And yes /etc/portage/bin/post_sync is executed after sync by portage if it 
exists and is executable.

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Bo Andresen

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