When doing an "emerge --sync", the first layman repo is synced at the same time as the portage cache is being updated. You can see how the cache update progress bar is split as the first repo (vmware) gets synced. This only affects the first repo. All remaining repos are synced only after the cache update completes. ... sent 143.52K bytes received 9.89M bytes 211.29K bytes/sec total size is 334.03M speedup is 33.28 === Sync completed for gentoo >>> Updating Portage cache >>> Syncing repository 'vmware' into '/var/lib/layman/vmware'... >>> Starting layman sync for vmware... * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/vmware && /usr/bin/git pull ) 0% [> ]Already up-to-date. * * Succeeded: * ------ * Successfully synchronized overlay "vmware". * >>> layman sync succeeded: vmware >>> laymansync sez... "Hasta la sync ya, baby!" === Sync completed for vmware 100% [=======================================================================>] >>> Syncing repository 'steam-overlay' into '/var/lib/layman/steam-overlay'... >>> Starting layman sync for steam-overlay... * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay && /usr/bin/git pull ) Already up-to-date. * * Succeeded: * ------ * Successfully synchronized overlay "steam-overlay". * >>> layman sync succeeded: steam-overlay >>> laymansync sez... "Hasta la sync ya, baby!" === Sync completed for steam-overlay >>> Syncing repository 'interactive-fiction' into '/var/lib/layman/interactive-fiction'... >>> Starting layman sync for interactive-fiction... * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/interactive-fiction && /usr/bin/git pull ) ...
$ emerge --info portage Portage 2.2.22 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.1.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.1.9-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2500K_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16385360 total, 12972912 free KiB Swap: 25166912 total, 25166912 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:45:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.0::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10::gentoo, 3.3.5-r2::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.17::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.9::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.21-r1::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 interactive-fiction location: /var/lib/layman/interactive-fiction sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://repo.or.cz/gentoo-interactive-fiction.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 steam-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 vmware location: /var/lib/layman/vmware sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/vmware.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 Local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 99999999 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -mtune=native -march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -mtune=native -march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" DISTDIR="/mnt/Data/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/mnt/Data/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aes aes-ni alsa amd64 audiofile avx bash-completion branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fbcondecor flac gdbm gif glamor gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lcdfilter lcms libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 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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" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes aes-ni avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" DRACUT_MODULES="plymouth" 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 ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="emu efi-32 efi-64 pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22" SANE_BACKENDS="nothing" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 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" USE_PYTHON="3.4 3.3 2.7" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/portage-2.2.22::gentoo was built with the following: USE="(ipc) -build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) -xattr" ABI_X86="64" LINGUAS="-ru" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 (-pypy)"
This is a minor defect related to bug 557426, which is only noticeable when you are not using the --jobs option (or --jobs=1 which is equivalent). What we need to do is change SyncManager.async to return a CompositeTask instance which encapsulates the existing AsyncFunction instance and also calls the SyncManager._sync_callback code before it exits. This will ensure that the _sync_callback code (which updates the cache) will execute before a particular repo's sync operation is considered 'complete'.
There's a patch in the following branch: https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_562264 You can test it like this: echo '=sys-apps/portage-9999 **' >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords portage_LIVE_BRANCH=bug_562264 \ portage_LIVE_REPO=https://github.com/zmedico/portage.git \ emerge -1 =sys-apps/portage-9999 I've posted it for review here: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/7badb8ddf0f6861a7318be4f60aab7c1
This is in the master branch: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=4205ec912aebf2e3b0bd673fcacb576b1f344329
I've put: https://github.com/zmedico/portage/commit/4205ec912aebf2e3b0bd673fcacb576b1f344329.patch into: /etc/portage/patches/sys-apps/portage/ and emerged portage again. It fixes the issue for me.
Fixed in 2.2.23.