Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

[Bruce Schultz <brulzki@gmail.com>]

On 8 October 2014 1:09:54 AM AEST, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>Afternoon all,
>
>As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move 
>/usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and 
>/usr/portage/distfiles where they are.
>
>This is how it looks now:
>
>$ grep DIR= /etc/portage/make.conf
>DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
>PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
>PORTDIR="/var/portage"
>
>$ ls -l /etc/portage/make.profile
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Oct  7 15:28 /etc/portage/make.profile -> 
>../../var/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0
>
>$ mount | grep portage
>/dev/mapper/vg7-portage on /var/portage type ext4 (rw,relatime)
>/dev/mapper/vg7-packages on /usr/portage/packages type ext4
>(rw,relatime)
>/dev/mapper/vg7-distfiles on /usr/portage/distfiles type ext4
>(rw,relatime)
>
>This seems to work OK, except for eix-update, which gives me this:
>
>$ eix-update
>Reading Portage settings ..
>Building database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) ..
>[0] "gentoo" /var/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat)
>     Reading category 162|162 (100%) Finished             
>[1] "" /usr/portage (cache:
>parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign)
>     Reading category 162|162 (100%) EMPTY!
>[...]
>
>Evidently something is still pointing to /usr/portage, but I can't see
>what. I 
>used to have layman and a couple of overlays on this box, but they've
>now 
>gone. Well, maybe I left something lying around.
>
>I've grepped for likely-looking strings, read the docs and prodded
>google, but 
>I can't see what I'm missing. Would someone please help me out? I'm
>sure I'm 
>just being dense.

Check /etc/portage/repos.conf

Bruce
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