From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:56:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP40m=mZGSyjUo0-SiBPJ3xAGjYtnKaR4vk5GuqSiPs0PBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201410072248.36414.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 17:08:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:39:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> > > Check /etc/portage/repos.conf
>> >
>> > That's it! Many thanks, Bruce.
>>
>> Indeed. That directory was either empty or absent on all my systems.
>> copying repos.conf from /usr/share/portage and modifying the path got rid
>> of the message.
>
>
> Shouldn't this file be populated by settings in /etc/portage/make.conf?
>
> I can't recall editing manually and it seems to have bespoke settings that I
> have in make.conf ...
>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-07 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 15:09 [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var Peter Humphrey
2014-10-07 15:29 ` Bruce Schultz
2014-10-07 15:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-10-07 16:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 21:48 ` Mick
2014-10-07 21:56 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2014-10-07 22:03 ` Mick
2014-10-25 13:57 ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-25 16:45 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-25 17:49 ` Mick
2014-10-25 17:59 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-26 14:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-10-26 14:46 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-26 8:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2014-10-27 15:45 ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-27 19:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-27 20:05 ` Mike Gilbert
2014-10-29 11:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-10-30 11:17 ` [gentoo-user] Switch from PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY to repos.conf - WAS: " Tanstaafl
2014-10-08 11:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2014-10-07 15:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 15:57 ` Tomas Mozes
2014-10-07 16:02 ` Tomas Mozes
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