Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

[Tomas Mozes <tomas.mozes@shmu.sk>]

On 2014-10-07 17:57, Tomas Mozes wrote:
> On 2014-10-07 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> Afternoon all,
>> 
>> As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move
>> /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and
>> /usr/portage/distfiles where they are.
>> 
>> This is how it looks now:
>> 
>> $ grep DIR= /etc/portage/make.conf
>> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
>> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
>> PORTDIR="/var/portage"
>> 
>> $ ls -l /etc/portage/make.profile
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Oct  7 15:28 /etc/portage/make.profile ->
>> ../../var/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0
>> 
>> $ mount | grep portage
>> /dev/mapper/vg7-portage on /var/portage type ext4 (rw,relatime)
>> /dev/mapper/vg7-packages on /usr/portage/packages type ext4 
>> (rw,relatime)
>> /dev/mapper/vg7-distfiles on /usr/portage/distfiles type ext4 
>> (rw,relatime)
>> 
>> This seems to work OK, except for eix-update, which gives me this:
>> 
>> $ eix-update
>> Reading Portage settings ..
>> Building database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) ..
>> [0] "gentoo" /var/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat)
>>      Reading category 162|162 (100%) Finished
>> [1] "" /usr/portage (cache: 
>> parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign)
>>      Reading category 162|162 (100%) EMPTY!
>> [...]
>> 
>> Evidently something is still pointing to /usr/portage, but I can't see 
>> what. I
>> used to have layman and a couple of overlays on this box, but they've 
>> now
>> gone. Well, maybe I left something lying around.
>> 
>> I've grepped for likely-looking strings, read the docs and prodded 
>> google, but
>> I can't see what I'm missing. Would someone please help me out? I'm 
>> sure I'm
>> just being dense.
> 
> Try adjusting /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf

Sorry, didn't see the reply before.