1. How to update Macaroni Repositories URLs?

In the last period due to the changes in the new domain and the stabilization of the Macaroni infra there are a lot of changes in the repository URLs. Working with donated resources and/or free resources has the consequence that changes could happen.

So, I will describe the better way to upgrade our repositories safely.

a) leave only the geaaru-repo-index repository enabled. This means to call luet repo disable for all other repositories

$# anise repo disable macaroni-commons mottainai-stable macaroni-funtoo

$# anise repo list --enabled
geaaru-repo-index
  Macaroni OS Repository Index
  Revision     4 - 2023-02-25 10:32:39 +0000 -00
  Priority     1 - Type http

b) At this point, it’s possible to update the repository and get the new urls:

$# anise repo update
🏠 Repository:              geaaru-repo-index Revision:   4 - 2023-02-25 10:32:39 +0000 -00
$# anise upgrade

The upgrade creates the files /etc/luet/repos.conf.d/._cfg_<repo>.yml that could be merged with the command etc-update (in the old system) or with the command macaronictl etc-update in more updated systems.

After the upgrade and the merge of the new configs the system is ready for the updates: anise repo update and anise upgrade.

It’s possible to check the repository urls with:

# anise repo list --urls --enabled
geaaru-repo-index
  Geaaru Repository index
  Revision     4 - 2023-02-25 10:32:39 +0000 UTC
  Priority     1 - Type http
  Urls:
   * https://cdn.macaronios.org/mottainai/geaaru-repo-index
macaroni-commons-dev
  Macaroni OS Commons Development Repository
  Revision   129 - 2023-03-03 22:16:31 +0000 UTC
  Priority    10 - Type http
  Urls:
   * https://dev.macaronios.org/macaroni-commons-dev/
macaroni-funtoo-systemd-dev
  Macaroni OS Eagle Develop Repository
  Revision   452 - 2023-02-26 11:14:32 +0000 UTC
  Priority     2 - Type http
  Urls:
   * https://images.macaronios.org/macaroni-funtoo-systemd-dev/
mottainai-dev
  Mottainai Development Repository
  Revision    72 - 2023-02-25 23:47:52 +0000 UTC
  Priority    10 - Type http
  Urls:
   * https://dev.macaronios.org/mottainai-dev/
mottainai-stable
  Mottainai official Repository
  Revision    72 - 2023-02-25 23:47:52 +0000 UTC
  Priority    30 - Type http
  Urls:
   * https://dl.macaronios.org/repos/mottainai/
   * https://cdn2.macaronios.org/repos/mottainai/
   * https://macaronios.mirror.garr.it/repos/mottainai/

2. What to do after the upgrade of the anise binary?

I leave this point in the FAQ because I began to rewrite the Macaroni PMS and until I will rewrite the luet-build binary the luet repo update command executes some post-fetch operations on the downloaded tree to speed up the research, and to have the files used by the new solver available in the luet version 0.33.0 and followed.

So, after the upgrade of luet there are two things that are better to do:

$# anise database reindex

This will rebuild the Bolt Database indexes and

$# anise repo update --force

that downloads and executes again the post-fetch hooks in the downloaded tree.

One of the errors reported by users when a full fetch of the Macaroni repositories is not executed after the upgrade is this:

🤔 Computing upgrade, please hang tight... 💤
Error: Package net-libs-4/webkit not found on map

3. Why anise search doesn’t return packages?

Excluding the search of installed packages, I mean with the --installed option, the anise search command works only when the enabled repositories have been synced.

It’s just needed to download one time the repository tree and then all works fine.

$# anise repo update
...

$# anise s macaronictl
app-admin/macaronictl-0.6.2
app-admin/macaronictl-thin-0.6.2

# anise s portage-converter
macaroni/anise-portage-converter-0.11.2

4. luet or anise? What is the difference?

The tool anise is the Macaroni OS Package Manager that previously was called luet. We will definitively rename it when we have completed the refactor of anise-build tool.