On 17/01/17 18:03, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone have some pointers to setting up a local portage mirror for git > to serve? I'm looking at http://www.funtoo.org/Portage_Git_Mirror but some > details are obscure to me. I hope I'm not going to have to roll my sleeves > up and learn the whole of git; I just want to cut down the time my boxes > take to sync via git - some of them have their portage trees nfs-mounted in > chroots on my workstation and take anything up to 20 minutes to sync. > > One question comes up straight away: should the git-served repository be the > host's own /usr/portage tree? And what cron task should I run to refresh the > mirror? > > Any help would be gratefully received. > > (I can still read e-mails via web-mail even when KMail is playing up.) >
I moved my systems to a local git repos some time ago - it works (fast - much faster than rsync!)but its not perfect: It would be nice if someone can share how it really should be done! Below is the contents of an email to the list in 2015 when I got it working: * problems: the files in /usr/share/portage sometimes get overridden and give an error message renaming "gentoo" to "olympus" (the server host) made sense at the time but creates odd errors at times requiring files to be restored. git doesnt use the portage checksums which besides odd errors at times required using "thin-manifests = true" in "/usr/portage/metadata/layout.conf" ++++++++++++++++++ Replace your rsync infrastructure with a git one. After set up, there is faster syncing than rsync, both externally to the gentoo infrastructure (reasonable ADSL link), and really fast compared to rsync internally. Not simple, but its a one off hit on just a few machines for me. Works for me, no warranty etc. Thanks to Michael and Hasufell for the hints needed to get this working. Apologies for the line wrap. Replace with your own values! repo name: olympus repo master host: olympus.lan.localdomain On the master: install git !!! Download https://github.com/hasufell/portage-gentoo-git-config unzip cp -v portage-gentoo-git-config-master/etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/* /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/ cp portage-gentoo-git-config-master/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf /etc/portage/repos.conf/ if needed: chmod +x /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/sync_overlay_cache cd /usr/ mv portage portage.old emerge --sync To use as the master for your own mirror system: Uncomment the lines in /etc/rsyncd.conf to set up your own gentoo-portage rsync server - still needed for now rc-update add rsyncd /etc/init.d/rsyncd start On the internal clients wanting to use the mirror: reccomended: set up passwordless ssh between clients and the master emerge dev-vcs/git create /etc/portage/repos.conf/olympus.conf as follows -------------------- [DEFAULT] main-repo = olympus [olympus] location = /usr/portage sync-type = git sync-uri = git://olympus.lan.localdomain:/usr/portage auto-sync = yes -------------------- create /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/sync_olympus -------------------- #!/bin/bash repository_name="${1}" repository_path="${3}" [[ ${repository_name} == "olympus" ]] || exit 0 source /lib/gentoo/functions.sh # Number of jobs for egencache, default is number or processors. parallel_jobs="$(nproc)" # caches ebegin "Fetching pre-generated metadata cache for ${repository_name}" rsync -a rsync://olympus.lan.localdomain/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/ "${repository_path}"/metadata/md5-cache/ eend $? ebegin "Updating metadata cache for ${repository_name}" egencache --jobs="${parallel_jobs}" --repo="${repository_name}" --update --update-use-local-desc eend $? #DTD's DTDDIR="${repository_path}"/metadata/dtd ebegin "Updating DTDs" if [[ -e ${DTDDIR} ]]; then git -C "${DTDDIR}" pull -q --ff else git clone olympus.lan.localdomain:/usr/portage/metadata/dtd "${DTDDIR}" fi eend "$?" #GLSA's GLSADIR="${repository_path}"/metadata/glsa ebegin "Updating GLSAs" if [[ -e ${GLSADIR} ]]; then git -C "${GLSADIR}" pull -q --ff else git clone olympus.lan.localdomain:/usr/portage/metadata/glsa "${GLSADIR}" fi eend "$?" # herds ebegin "Updating herds.xml" rsync -a rsync://olympus.lan.localdomain/gentoo-portage/metadata/herds.xml "${repository_path}"/metadata/md5-cache/ eend $? #news NEWSDIR="${repository_path}"/metadata/news ebegin "Updating news items" if [[ -e ${NEWSDIR} ]]; then git -C "${NEWSDIR}" pull -q --ff else git clone olympus.lan.localdomain:/usr/portage/metadata/news "${NEWSDIR}" fi eend $? "Try to remove ${NEWSDIR}" -------------------- mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old git clone olympus.lan.localdomain:/usr/portage /usr/portage echo 'olympus' > /usr/portage/profiles/repo_name echo 'masters = olympus' > /usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf echo 'thin-manifests = true' >> /usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf cp /usr/portage/metadata/layout.conf /usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf cp /etc/portage/repos.conf/olympus.conf /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf emerge --sync emerge --sync * the first sync will complete the process, the second is to check there are no errors.
