As the title speaks, if tarsync is intalled, emerge-delta-webrsync will not consider PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS anymore. Without tarsync it does the job fine. I had moved all my packages and even my kernel sources to /usr/portage/ which is on a different partiton. After running emerge-delta-webrsync with tarsync installed, it wiped all data except the main tree and distfiles. Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.9.3-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.9.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3_CPU_M_380_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3841500 total, 1338828 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194240 free Timestamp of tree: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.4, 4.7.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo tlp linuxsystems science MyLocalOverlay x-localoverlays ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA Google-TOS AdobeFlash-11.x PUEL sun-bcla-java-vm skype-eula dlj-1.1 RTCW-ETEULA AdobeFlash-10.3 AdobeFlash-10 Nero-EULA-US skype-4.0.0.7-copyright Intel-SDP" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles/" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --jobs=8 --load-average=5.0 --with-bdeps y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,now,--as-needed,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common" MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/GentooPackages/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/prtgtmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/lymnprtg/tlp /usr/portage/lymnprtg/linuxsystems /usr/portage/lymnprtg/science /usr/portage/lymnprtg /usr/portage/lymnprtg/localoverlays" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3gp X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 amr archive asf automount avahi berkdb bittorrent blas bluetooth bmp branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative directfb djvu double-precision dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr emboss encode exif faac faad fam fbcon fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac flash fortran fortran95 fuse gdbm gif gmp gpg gpm gstreamer gtk gzip h323 html iconv icu id3tag inotify ipv6 jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi lame lapack lcms ldap libnotify live lm_sensors lzma mad matroska mjpeg mms mmx mmxext mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses network nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg ogm openal opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png pnm policykit postscript ppds python3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline real samba scanner sdl search semantic-desktop session sftp sip slp smp socks socks5 spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 sse4a ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream svg symlink taglib tcpd theora tiff tk truetype type3 udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l vaapi vcd vcdx vlm vorbis vpx wav wavpack webgl wifi wma wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xpm xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo youtube zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en ar fa" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="gt68xx" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, USE_PYTHO Reproducible: Always
The same issue affects emerge-webrsync. Since tarsync does not support rsync options, we use a hardcoded list of excluded for tarsync: -e /distfiles -e /packages -e /local Storing files inside PORTDIR and relying on excludes is fragile a best. It would be a lot safer for you to set PORTDIR to a subdirectory of /usr/portage, like /usr/portage/gentoo. In make.conf you can set PORTDIR to any location you want.
