[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf is missing

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On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:49:37 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 25 Apr 2015 14:07:38 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync
> > 
> > The 'Migration' section states that:
> > If /etc/portage/repos.conf does not exist:
> > root # mkdir /etc/portage/repos.conf
> > root # cp /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf
> > /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
> > 
> > Which is what I did on one of my systems, while on the other,
> > '/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf' seems to have come into being
> > without any interference on my part, so to speak.  
> 
> Ahh!  Well spotted.  Thank you Alexander.  The mystery as to why some
> systems were converted and others require manual intervention
> remains ...

I made the transition manually the other day.  I guess I might as well
toss into this thread a couple of minor roadbumps I hit.

The filename gentoo doesn't matter to portage AFAICT, but it
does matter to other tools, e.g. mirrorselect, so use gentoo.conf.

<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman#Using_.27repos.conf.27_method_.28default_method_for_app-portage.2Flayman-2.1.0_or_later_.29>
says `layman-updater -R` will update repos.conf/layman.conf as long as
you have >=layman-2.1.0, but with layman-2.1.0-r3, I couldn't get it to
work.  I moved to layman-2.3.0 and it created the file fine.