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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:36:04
Message-Id: 20120330063556.GU10282@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree by Roy Bamford
1 On 29-03-2012 22:12:40 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
2 > > For example, my /usr/portage/ on this system looks like this:
3 > >
4 > > portage/
5 > > tree/
6 > > profiles/ -> tree/profiles/
7 > > distfiles/
8 > > packages/
9 > > layman/
10 > >
11 > > it is a big improvement over the current
12 > > distfiles-and-packages-mixed-with-tree-while-layman-wanders state :)
13 >
14 > Lets move packages/ out of there. I share /usr/portage over NFS to
15 > several different arches. Sharing /usr/portage/packages is a really
16 > bad idea in that set up. As they all run ~arch, they all build packages
17 > so I can downgrade quickly.
18
19 I always use packages/CHOST for that reason.
20
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22 --
23 Fabian Groffen
24 Gentoo on a different level

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