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

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:40:59 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> > 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 :-(

I never saw anything like this when making the change. Try

$ grep -r x-portage /etc/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/share/portage

to see if you can find any mention of x-portage. Also try

$ grep -r usr/portage /etc/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/share/portage

but that will get some hits from /usr/share/portage.
AIUI /usr/share/portage/repos.conf sets the defaults, which are
overridden by the file in /etc. That's how it happens here.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Drop your carrier .. we have you surrounded

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