[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 03/01/2010 08:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> (this is a rather obvious fix...)
>
> eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the
> presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman
> to /var/lib/layman. It offers three ways to deal with this location
> change. I chose alternative A. (actually moving the directory and
> updating make.conf and layman make.conf) and wanted to do it before I
> forgot about it.
>
> However, until layman is actually upgraded to version 1.3x, the
> script/executable will reference /usr/local/portage/layman and fail. So
> layman users choosing alternative A. now may want to add a step; after
> moving the directory, put a soft link in the /usr/local/portage pointing
> to the new location; i.e.
>
> cd /usr/local/portage; ln -s /var/lib/layman layman

Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there.