From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8A71388E3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C904E0B38; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com (mail-pa0-f42.google.com [209.85.220.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0209E0B2D for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id bj1so7415206pad.29 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:30:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:from:date:to :message-id; bh=zFIeK0CDXAsAhGiEPJzVHL2JLoAB3ctJpqJN3QoeLZE=; b=zHnBDuEChCCJrHdimVI9CZPUj7IBvCV7lLmq9NsVf7HQknSLBvExStuIK/UA8mKY7n 60hXvsHqgIItWhqjMeXBI04oh0lHaiMkzTDuXr4VgR+U0i2KXJCgKU3kPTk5Z18rnJIh Q9ayRaT5cVErIUCc1bgrr+Bt7fND+DLizQTX8X6glm4TGK4Kuv+oP86iZw4Dh8hvh/CS jkGgq3XNU+/6pygM0mwB2tQsPeYfqL8QLx+n+qetD0zqhuzS4wW6M7suiiUgVPMhwnha ECzXULS9Gfbhpds1h3IvuK09GFA7vyWbShBJfwTA/agWQdi8yqGTW7Lk6T1zefAVMMqh 7OFw== X-Received: by 10.66.226.203 with SMTP id ru11mr4353355pac.74.1412695806814; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.80] (16.86.70.115.static.exetel.com.au. [115.70.86.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l8sm16313183pbq.25.2014.10.07.08.30.04 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:30:05 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <4473472.7D6UrCk1jI@wstn> References: <4473472.7D6UrCk1jI@wstn> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var From: Bruce Schultz Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:29:59 +1000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <1ED07205-C857-49AB-8E2D-1323321D9161@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7a179188-acab-4bd7-bf6d-ff5e60115a93 X-Archives-Hash: e3ff5fc660568c07471a589cb1131a52 On 8 October 2014 1:09:54 AM AEST, Peter Humphrey 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 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.