Hi, it would be nice if there is a possibility to execute a script piror sync, but with 2.2_rc16 it is not possible either with bashrc or as seperate script in bin. The reason is, that i want to customize emerge with some own portage-bashrc scripts to support overlays in some way and during that scripting i missed it to have the possibility to execute scripts during sync. Alex btw. why is it handled different: during normal emerge the different stages execute bashrc with a enviroment variable and after emerge --sync the /etc/portage/bin/post_sync is executet. Why isn't emerge --sync also calling the bashrc with EBUILD_PHASE set to post_sync and add maybe pre_sync.
(In reply to comment #0) > btw. why is it handled different: during normal emerge the different stages > execute bashrc with a enviroment variable and after emerge --sync the > /etc/portage/bin/post_sync is executet. Why isn't emerge --sync also calling > the bashrc with EBUILD_PHASE set to post_sync and add maybe pre_sync. Because syncing is not an ebuild phase, it's a conceptually completely different thing. There is a lot more to ebuild phase execution than just setting a single variable, trying to force sync into the same framework would be a real mess.
(In reply to comment #1) > [...] trying to force sync into the same framework would > be a real mess. Ah ok. But is it possible to add something similar to the syncprocess? Like pre_sync?
for syncing overlays, if you insist that it should be done in portage (I say wrapper script is better), there seems to be no reason why postsync.d cannot be used.
