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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 25 Oct 2014 17:45:05 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> > On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >>> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting
> >>> from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to
> >>> configure it.
> >>> 
> >>> Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools
> >>> which parse make.conf directly.
> >> 
> >> <Scratches head> ... so are we supposed to guess this, wait for a news
> >> article somewhere, or will it show up in an emerge log somewhere?
> > 
> > So... would appreciate a response from someone who knows.
> > 
> > I really dislike making systemic changes like this without really solid
> > guidance on how (and hopefully the why too)...
> 
> I'm only guessing, but I don't think PORTDIR is going away for a while.
> Eventually, portage will probably begin to warn you if you have PORTDIR
> set in your make.conf, and will tell you to move your settings to
> repos.conf (with a pointer to the man page or wiki). That'll stick
> around for another while. Then, you'll get a news item telling you that
> PORTDIR is going away in a month or so.
> 
> Finally, your shit will stop working and that's your final warning =)
> 
> More realistically, the portage upgrade might die or ewarn loudly if you
> still have PORTDIR set.

I haven't touched this on my systems yet.  As a matter of fact, I totally 
forgot about it!

(Old age creeps up on you)  :-p

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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