[gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

[gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

[Jude DaShiell]

Found no snapshots on rit.edu and went back from now to March 6, 2022.
I'm using openrc now.  Has gentoo got a site where it shows latest
available snapshot information for its snapshots?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

[Arve Barsnes]

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 19:58, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:

> Found no snapshots on rit.edu and went back from now to March 6, 2022.
> I'm using openrc now.  Has gentoo got a site where it shows latest
> available snapshot information for its snapshots?
>

What kind of information are you after?

I looked at a different mirror, and it doesn't really have any information
except signatures and the like.

https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/Mirrors/gentoo/snapshots/

Regards,
Arve

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

[Jude DaShiell]

I was doing the emerge-webrsync step in the install instructions for
gentoo and that was to install a gentoo snapshot.


On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, Arve Barsnes wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 19:58, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Found no snapshots on rit.edu and went back from now to March 6, 2022.
> > I'm using openrc now.  Has gentoo got a site where it shows latest
> > available snapshot information for its snapshots?
> >
>
> What kind of information are you after?
>
> I looked at a different mirror, and it doesn't really have any information
> except signatures and the like.
>
> https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/Mirrors/gentoo/snapshots/
>
> Regards,
> Arve
>

[gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

[de Almeida, Valmor F.]

Hello,

After using emerge-webrsync I got


> Updating Portage cache:  100%

 *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible.
     Update is current as of the of YYYYMMDD: 20090219

I am not sure what the message means "perform a normal rsync if
possible." I used emerge-webrsync because emerge --sync does not work.
Do I still have to do anything else to update the portage tree? Also, I
did not get the typical message warning about a new portage version
(after emerge-webrsync finished) but I did   emerge --oneshot portage
anyway and got a new portage. Is this supposed to behave this way?

Thanks,

--
Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 19:12, de Almeida, Valmor F.
<dealmeidav@ornl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After using emerge-webrsync I got
>
>
>> Updating Portage cache:  100%
>
>  *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible.
>     Update is current as of the of YYYYMMDD: 20090219
>
> I am not sure what the message means "perform a normal rsync if
> possible." I used emerge-webrsync because emerge --sync does not work.

The message couldn't be more clear.
The webrsync is not a real sync, so you're not with the latest portage
tree, you have the latest portage daily snapshot, if you do a normal
sync, then you'll have the latest. To clarify, it even prints the date
of this snapshot. Even if you had any doubt, the "if possible" message
should make enough clear.

> Do I still have to do anything else to update the portage tree? Also, I
> did not get the typical message warning about a new portage version
> (after emerge-webrsync finished) but I did   emerge --oneshot portage
> anyway and got a new portage. Is this supposed to behave this way?
>

As I said above, if you can't rsync directly, there's no way you can
get a newer version than you already have... So, you're OK with the
latest portage tree you can get. Now, about the portage versions:.
what are the old and new versions? Maybe it was just a revision, not a
new version, anyway, that's just a guess.

-- 
Daniel da Veiga