Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 17:33 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> > On 12/19/2012 02:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:56:44 +0100
> >> Diego Elio Pettenņ <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just mv /usr/portage /var/portage ? FFS no. Among other things, as
> >>> many said before, we should really take distfiles out of the tree
> >>> itself, and packages the same. And I don't want /var/packages
> >>> or /var/distfiles at all.
> >>
> >> If we are going to move distfiles out of the tree into, what are the
> >> odds of getting /some/path/portage/local to move somewhere else too?

I am already making this configurable in catalyst which builds the
stages and install media.  It is my intention to move it to the new
repositories location alongside the gentoo tree directory and any layman
installed overlays.

> >
> > What program uses this "local" directory? It's not used directly by
> > portage itself, though portage has an exclude for it in the default
> > PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS setting (in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals).
> >
>
> layman used to use /usr/portage/local for storing overlays. See code
> listing 2.2.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
>

I plan to migrate layman to the new portage/catalyst defaults when they
are done.  The current default is /var/lib/layman


As I will not be the sole dictator as to what these new defaults will
be.  I am working on the code to make it easy to set to whatever the
final decision is made to be.

just to clarify, I'm voting for...

/var/cache/distfiles
/var/cache/packages
/var/cache/repositories/
/var/cache/repositories/gentoo   <== the main portage tree
/var/cache/repositories/local    <== the new location for a local overlay
/var/cache/repositories/some-overlay  <== layman installed overlay


-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>