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From: "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <mva@×××.name>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:03:45
Message-Id: 50D1BB2D.80809@mva.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
1 But, anyway, I think, /var/repositories/gentoo is very very nice idea ;)
2
3 19.12.2012 03:03, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina пишет:
4 > On 12/18/2012 02:49 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
5 >> On 12/18/2012 01:38 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
6 >>> On 12/17/2012 02:19 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
7 >>>> Currently we put portage into /usr/portage and all related stuff is to
8 >>>> be in the subfolders there (distfiles, binpkg).
9 >>>>
10 >>>> I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for
11 >>>> /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to
12 >>>> make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P).
13 >>>>
14 >>>> The only reason why we have this currently in usr is that bsd ports
15 >>>> put their stuff in there and I suppose Daniel just did the same.
16 >>>>
17 >>>> With respect to reality how stuff is done in the linux land all the
18 >>>> variable data should be in /var so we should adjust and move it in
19 >>>> there too.
20 >>>>
21 >>>> What would you think?
22 >
23 >>> I like the idea. As noted in bug #378603 [1], I'd like the portage
24 >>> ebuild to ensure that the locations don't unexpectedly change for
25 >>> existing installs.
26 >
27 >>> Will it break catalyst? If so, we might begin the migration by fixing
28 >>> catalyst and having to set the new default locations in the make.conf
29 >>> that it generates.
30 >
31 >>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378603#c1
32 >
33 >> Yes, it will break catalyst. However, if the folder that the portage
34 >> tree goes in is still something/something/portage then it shouldn't be
35 >> hard to fix.
36 >
37 > It should probably be mentioned (since most of us don't use the
38 > snapshots every day) that the snapshots actually contain a folder called
39 > "portage" in the tarball. Not that it would be impossible to change,
40 > but if we migrate from /usr/portage to /var/whatever/portage then the
41 > changes are trivial, if we migrate to /var/repositories/gentoo that
42 > makes things like unpacking the snapshots significantly non-trivial.
43 >
44 > I really don't care what everyone wants to do here (although I'm
45 > generally for sticking closer to FHS), but I warn that if the path
46 > doesn't end in "portage" the changes are going to be significantly
47 > non-trivial.
48 >
49 > Thanks,
50 > Zero
51 >
52 >> -ZC
53 >
54 >
55 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>