From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?]
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 06:17:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf15324f-7ad4-0dd7-6fdb-ea7259007a10@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161026183408.11166.33666A8D@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
On 27/10/16 02:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 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 :-(
>
No its not a template - portage reads it and throws a wobbly. I just
copy /etc/portage/repos.d/gentoo.conf over it (or whatever you are using
on your system). I think its supposed to be a default fallback, and it
all workd regardless even with the error.
BillK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-26 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-14 18:02 [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild? Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-14 18:16 ` Mick
2016-10-14 19:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-14 20:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-14 18:29 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-10-15 1:05 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-15 3:27 ` Kai Krakow
2016-10-15 3:42 ` Kai Krakow
2016-10-15 5:35 ` [gentoo-user] Backup [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?] Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-15 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-15 19:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-15 21:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-26 18:40 ` [gentoo-user] transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-26 20:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-27 1:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-27 7:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-28 12:53 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-10-26 22:17 ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2016-10-15 11:22 ` [gentoo-user] Backup " Rich Freeman
2016-10-15 19:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-10-14 18:39 ` [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild? Alexey Mishustin
2016-10-15 23:41 ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-16 9:06 ` Alexey Mishustin
2016-10-14 18:40 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-16 10:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2016-10-16 10:52 ` Alexey Mishustin
2016-10-16 18:08 ` waltdnes
2016-10-16 19:27 ` Martin Vaeth
2016-10-16 20:10 ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-17 0:04 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-17 9:34 ` Wolfgang Mueller
2016-10-18 19:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
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2016-10-19 4:41 ` Andy Mender
2016-10-21 12:10 ` Martin Vaeth
2016-10-21 13:09 ` Andy Mender
2016-10-21 17:14 ` Ian Zimmerman
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