[gentoo-user] Re: --sync

2022-08-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-07-31, 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. In my experience, long --sync times have always been due to a slow rsync server. Swit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sync-type: rsync vs git

2022-04-27 Thread Wol
On 27/04/2022 17:24, Grant Edwards wrote: IOW, I want all the changes made during a single "sync" to go into my local repo as a single commit regardless of how many commits have been made to the master repo since my previous "sync". I think git can do that -- whether the emerge sync settings in /

[gentoo-user] Re: sync-type: rsync vs git

2022-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-04-27, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:22 AM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Is there any advantage (either to me or the Gentoo community) to >> continue to use rsync and the rsync pool instead of switching the >> rest of my machines to git? >> >> I've been very impressed wit

[gentoo-user] Re: Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-27, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and > got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be > new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that. When that happened to me, it was the resul

[gentoo-user] Re: Sync only installed and dependence packages with portage.

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 13 16:42, Qian Qiao (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > As the title suggested, I've got a box with very limited disk space, > is it possible to sync only the packages currently installed and their > dependencies with the portage tree and leave out the rest? I'll assume you're clearin