From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmAMS-0000Ob-BT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:28:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFF19E09DD; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9019CE09DD for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187481B447E for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:27:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.027 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.027 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.428, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sZhko46MwNnR for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4257D1B446A for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmAKz-00055m-Tw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:27:25 +0100 Received: from athedsl-381579.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.42.137]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:27:25 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-381579.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:27:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation" Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:26:15 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4B8C028E.7010602@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-381579.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4B8C028E.7010602@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2e543ffc-d5d1-4cbb-beb5-f3ca0338b9c3 X-Archives-Hash: 88a430f1373d4aed597e7716ead3e38d 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.