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 D59F51388E3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:38:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 131E1E0B60; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDE3E0B58 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B025B203F7 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:37:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:37:47 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var Message-ID: <20141007163747.591b894f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4473472.7D6UrCk1jI@wstn> References: <4473472.7D6UrCk1jI@wstn> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/XQSQw+Yoc2+XMfvkT68Bj=p"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 0497aaae-4cf6-46ea-a890-1ef789e0fe30 X-Archives-Hash: 0394b3afb6475db0d0aa51af2a5d572d --Sig_/XQSQw+Yoc2+XMfvkT68Bj=p Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:09:54 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > This seems to work OK, except for eix-update, which gives me this: >=20 > $ 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 =20 > [1] "" /usr/portage (cache: > parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign) Reading category > parse|162|162 (100%) EMPTY! > [...] >=20 > Evidently something is still pointing to /usr/portage, but I can't see > what. I've just installed a new system with the tree in /var from the outset and no /usr/portage at all, and eix behaves like this (I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out) so it may be the /usr/portage path is hard coded. This doesn't cause any problems but now you have pointed it out it is going to annoy me. --=20 Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. --Sig_/XQSQw+Yoc2+XMfvkT68Bj=p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQ0CM8ACgkQum4al0N1GQNoegCglD8NFuYfeNiPNFhkEiW9cCG0 r0UAn3IU63ZisAjDlrf2wUHS+cK0LqDC =VUWQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/XQSQw+Yoc2+XMfvkT68Bj=p--