<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Mick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaelkintzios@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaelkintzios@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Saturday 25 Apr 2015 11:00:18 Dale wrote:<br> > Mick wrote:<br> > > Are we meant to create the above file manually?<br> > ><br> > > This box is running sys-apps/portage-2.2.18 but I was surprised to see<br> ><br> > that it<br> ><br> > > doesn't have a gentoo.conf file.<br> ><br> > I use the latest, excluding 9999 version, of portage and I have it<br> > here. I didn't create it so I assume it was installed during a<br> > upgrade. This is the contents of the file if you need it.<br> ><br> ><br> > [DEFAULT]<br> > main-repo = gentoo<br> ><br> > [gentoo]<br> > location = /var/cache/portage/tree<br> > sync-type = rsync<br> > sync-uri = rsync://<a href="http://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" target="_blank">rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage</a><br> ><br> ><br> > Hope that helps.<br> ><br> > Dale<br> ><br> > :-) :-)<br> <br> </div></div>Thanks Dale, I just upgraded two boxen to sys-apps/portage-2.2.18 and both are<br> complaining thus:<br> ====================================<br> !!! SYNC setting found in make.conf.<br> This setting is Deprecated and no longer used. Please ensure your 'sync-<br> type' and 'sync-uri' are set correctly in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf<br> ====================================<br> <br> I recall reading "New portage plug-in sync system" in eselect news, but it<br> doesn't mention creating such files manually:<br> <br> "Migration:<br> Edit /etc/portage/repos.conf/*.conf files, add the auto-sync option<br> to each repository definition."<br> <span class=""><font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Regards,<br> Mick<br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The setting referred to in the message above is the SYNC variable defined in /etc/portage/make.conf.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With the sync url now defined in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf, you either want to comment out the line in /etc/portage/make.conf where SYNC is defined, or get rid of it all together. For the time being, I chose the former.<br><br>grep uri /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf <br>sync-uri = rsync://<a href="http://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage">rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage</a><br>% grep SYNC /etc/portage/make.conf<br>#SYNC="rsync://<a href="http://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage">rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage</a>"<br><br></div></div>