[gentoo-user] transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?]

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net>]

On 2016-10-15 22:03, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> >     PORTDIR = [path]
> > 
> >               Defines the location of main repository. This variable is
> >               deprecated in favor of settings in repos.conf. If you
> >               change this, you must update your
> >               /etc/portage/make.profile symlink accordingly.  Defaults
> >               to /usr/portage.
> > 
> > So, 2 warnings ... looks dangerous after all.
> 
> Not really warnings, just advice. Yes, you should really use the new way
> of setting it. Then run eselect profile to reset your profile symlink.
> 
> All you are doing is moving the portage tree to a filesystem that you
> backup and telling portage abut it. There's nothing dangerous about it
> and you won't stop your system working even if you get it wrong. I do
> that on all my Gentoo boxes as I don't want dynamic data in /usr. 

So I have done this, but now every portage operation gives me:

!!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute
set to nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage'

There is no [x-portage] section in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf,
the file I modified to point to the new location.  My modification was:

< location = /usr/portage
> location = /var/lib/portage/ports

and this was in the [gentoo] section.

Apart from that file, there is also
/usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf, but I thought this was just a
template for the one in /etc.  The original contents were the same,
ie. location = /usr/portage, and _no_ [x-portage] section.

I am confused, just as I feared would happen :-(

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