On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 01:05:12 +0800 > konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> > konsolebox posted on Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:10:53 +0800 as excerpted: >> > >> >> Hi, I can't find a way to make `emerge --sync` add an option like >> >> `-f` to `git pull` when it runs it. How about adding >> >> sync-git-extra-opts or sync-git-pull-extra-opts to repos.conf? We >> >> already have sync-rsync-extra-opts for rsync so I think it's fair >> >> to add one for git. >> > >> > If you have layman installed, you can set repo sync-type to >> > laymansync, and layman, in turn, has configuration options that >> > allow you to set additional options for git as well as the other >> > repo-type fetch commands (bzr, svn, etc). >> > >> >> Unfortunately I need it for the `gentoo` repo itself. I do have >> layman repos but I update them separately with `layman -S`, and I >> don't want them to always get updated together with `gentoo` everytime >> I run `emerge --sync`. >> > > No, the portage sync system controls which repo(s) get synced via the > auto-sync setting. So layman can git sync the gentoo repo like Duncan > described without also syncing your manually synced layman repos.
Ok I think I follow a bit, but wouldn't it be better to have that feature without relying on layman? -- konsolebox
