From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D9A1387D3 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DC30E086A; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BD5DE0769 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id k14so1065033wgh.13 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:50:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=xFtKsOIsf8MFPsxEeHeIJ9QQh+xVBPta42UjGiRikAU=; b=vgLr4P9Bn7bNmc5I9NHSs8xr5sdk0QL5doGza6eZDvsf44n+B0e30FRG9PnDc7WYcu XYtNGpo8uWHe9P/P/ilMmk37eVm6IiXYRrXEtTCTru/3pfcYpG42AhRtW3Yp7bHEP8A3 BmMLM8PfFgKy03ldcVu8gMoRIF8XQmSD+LySxoyV/32UwhqieZf+BiNuv5QGu3WojEzk zSnhwDWyKhV3Etr2ElRX5y7H9WJxQFPmkXTJ05/Son8JaI+let2AxL9cYm5i32sbL/mr h6v4T10RPY0GVayRp6xrkpTXDxEhEZhzIggbOhl3velnxwlxGOK9XJ+jQnSI80pMLfl5 CTuw== X-Received: by 10.180.36.48 with SMTP id n16mr11773576wij.6.1414259407648; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q9sm5749702wix.6.2014.10.25.10.50.06 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:50:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:49:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4473472.7D6UrCk1jI@wstn> <544BAC39.3050505@libertytrek.org> <544BD391.7070102@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <544BD391.7070102@gentoo.org> 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; boundary="nextPart1697268.rVMRL2nFF7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201410251849.38932.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 922dc7f6-569b-4bed-a29c-b1af53bfc1f5 X-Archives-Hash: f57ad81ec983a90d5aef03d05726ce2d --nextPart1697268.rVMRL2nFF7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 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. > >>>=20 > >>> Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools > >>> which parse make.conf directly. > >>=20 > >> ... so are we supposed to guess this, wait for a news > >> article somewhere, or will it show up in an emerge log somewhere? > >=20 > > So... would appreciate a response from someone who knows. > >=20 > > I really dislike making systemic changes like this without really solid > > guidance on how (and hopefully the why too)... >=20 > 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. >=20 > Finally, your shit will stop working and that's your final warning =3D) >=20 > 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=20 forgot about it! (Old age creeps up on you) :-p =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1697268.rVMRL2nFF7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJUS+KyAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeyaEH/jmAoSz76gN8bxpPSmXnLcYr Eb5s6aI888U76L3rAu62RwCh6kBjUmJiAKkGooe5E6i+5TvrFWyb3ogOEWSfDOLJ 3ARqcDHD5U2R62KbH6ZiQekLi+0O1k+WjZTua0fbRS4u9+ZZUNjZadZE7qZfm6+F NUtrRSHZbG9qoZMB8XuQqUSquj3Kl5dgFm+03/im7jFz9s9wiVG7RbF7zOat+tnI q4H3MzVfwIPzFwDj297XFX13RJwaxJj3MdVnzswX6v2Uy/DfmnA7vqT4LxwdOFW6 juDZh+KyhRwumvvGaWUv/omAnwjO3SoR/BhWj1rK0KpH81a/smOhyQI2X8poeIc= =dL+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1697268.rVMRL2nFF7--