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Hello! |
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As a proper solution to bug #306233 [1] I have prepared a draft for a |
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related glep-42-style [2] news item, my first such item ever. This is |
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my request for review. |
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If I don't hear anything for the next 72 hours I may put it online, as I |
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understand the GLEP. If you'd need more time for a proper review just |
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let me know. |
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Here we go: |
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Title: Layman storage path changed from version 1.3.0 on |
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Author: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2010-02-25 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: <app-portage/layman-1.3 |
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Layman has been using /usr/local/portage/layman to store |
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overlay checkouts from version 1.2.3 on. As that path |
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was violating the concept of keeping portage away from |
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/usr/local the default of this storage location moves to |
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/var/lib/layman |
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from version 1.3.0 on. If you have never modified /etc/layman.cfg |
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manually before, you may be tempted to let tools like etc-update |
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or cfg-update blindly accept this new version of layman.cfg. |
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As that would hide all your currently installed overlays from layman |
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it's probably not what you want. Your options are: |
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A) Moving |
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Move your current location to /var/lib/layman before upgrading |
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B) A symlink |
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Put a symlink to your current storage location at /var/lib/layman |
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before upgrading layman |
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C) Configuration |
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Reject the path change for layman.cfg when running tools like |
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etc-update or cfg-update blindly. Be aware with this way you'll |
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have to do it for each layman update again. |
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PS: This news item is a reaction to users having run into this problem |
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(see bug #306233). Thanks to Volker Hemmann for reporting. |
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Thanks for your help, |
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Sebastian |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306233 |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html |
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