Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

[Kai Peter <kp@lists.openqmail.org>]

On 2018-06-07 23:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:38:52 +0100, Mick wrote:
> 
>> Your pointer for RSYNC* proved useful.  At some point in the past I
>> must have decided rsync was taking an awful long time sync'ing the
>> games directories. Since I don't emerge or play games I had added this
>> entry in my make.conf:
>> 
>> $ grep RSYNC_ /etc/make.conf
>> PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
>> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
>> 
>> $ cat /etc/portage/rsync_excludes
>> games-*/*
> 
> I wondered if it might be something like that.
> 
>> Once I commented this option out the verification succeeded.  So ...
>> this verification problem seems to be caused by my intentional
>> exclusion of games from sync'ing.
>> 
>> Does this mean I won't be able to exclude games hereafter if I want to
>> verify portage's contents, or is there a different approach required?
> 
> As long as it only fails on verification of games-* I don't see a
> problem, unless you are relying on a zero return code from emerge 
> --sync.
> 
> Does gasmes-* still take a long time to sync? I wouldn't have thought
> there would be a lot of changes in there compared with other sections,
> such as kde-*.

I got the same issue and it doesn't depend on games*. Verification fails 
at the first excluded category in the order listed in the metamanifest.

regards
Kai
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