Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:51:05 +0200, n952162 wrote:

> I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync,
> it's really a painful process.
> 
> The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not.
> 
> I try different repos.conf servers - one works for a while, then
> doesn't, then later, the new one doesn't work anymore and the old one
> works again.

I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked
back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than
using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there.

% cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
priority = 20
location = /var/portage
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo
auto-sync = yes


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Neil Bothwick

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