Here is a new synchronizing tool for portage trees.

[rrbrussell]

After a few failed tries of getting a working local rsync mirror working from a git tree
I decided to write my own tool for synchronizing portage trees. It works by compressing
each tree into a squashfs and with an updated md5-cache and no .git directory.

The program is found at https://github.com/rrbrussell/tree-sinker.
The ebuilds can be found the app-admin/tree-sinker directory at https://github.com/rrbrussell/roberts_overlay.

Comments, suggestions, and critiques of both are appreciated.

[logrusx]

Is this syncing or sinking trees? :)

On a more serious note, you're listing a lot of dependencies in the readme, but none in the ebuild. Ideally you should list all dependencies in the ebuild (and not count on transitive dependencies).

I checked argparse just to be sure those are not simply commands and it popped up as a Gentoo package. Even if they were commands, you need to list the packages containing them.
/well this might not be the best example, I'm not a pythoneer, but requests is a good example for a dependency/

Best Regards,
Georgi

[Banana]

[logrusx]