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Bug 953248 - REPO_REVISIONS line in Packages file not being updated anymore
Summary: REPO_REVISIONS line in Packages file not being updated anymore
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Binary packages support (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Portage team
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Blocks: 924772
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Reported: 2025-04-05 16:32 UTC by gentoo_user_95
Modified: 2025-05-01 14:35 UTC (History)
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Description gentoo_user_95 2025-04-05 16:32:52 UTC 
Starting a few weeks ago, the REPO_REVISIONS line in files like releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64-v3/Packages stopped being updated when a new batch of binary packages is compiled and published to the mirrors.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-04-05 16:40:17 UTC 
On milou:

2024-11-07T16:24:48 >>> sys-apps/portage-3.0.66.1-r1: 1′22″
2025-03-15T16:06:31 >>> sys-apps/portage-3.0.67: 34s
2025-03-28T19:39:09 >>> sys-apps/portage-3.0.67: 11s

2025-02-22T21:17:09 >>> dev-vcs/git-2.45.3: 4′55″
2025-03-15T16:05:58 >>> dev-vcs/git-2.48.1: 33s
2025-03-28T19:37:04 >>> dev-vcs/git-2.48.1: 1′18″
2025-03-29T17:58:32 >>> dev-vcs/git-2.49.0-r2: 19s

Looking at https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64/Packages, I see:

REPO_REVISIONS: {"gentoo": "36508f40390a65ca5d92409213664fc28ebd7a81"}
TIMESTAMP: 1743691567

which is:

commit 36508f40390a65ca5d92409213664fc28ebd7a81
Author: WANG Xuerui <xen0n@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Mar 6 15:54:44 2025 +0800

    net-im/gajim: keyword 2.0.1 for ~loong, #950666

    Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <xen0n@gentoo.org>
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-04-05 16:41:00 UTC 
If it really stopped around ~6th March, neither Portage nor git seem like candidates to blame (at least not immediately obviously so).
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2025-04-08 02:22:17 UTC 
The issue is likely that the binhost builders have a "volatile" configuration for the gentoo repo, which prevents REPO_REVISIONS from being recorded.
Comment 4 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-04-08 02:56:08 UTC 
emerge --info has..

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
    priority: -1000
    volatile: False
    sync-git-verify-commit-signature: yes

on the host. I think we bind-mount that in. But do we need to enable history (so sync-depth & clone-depth = 0)?