[gentoo-dev] Re: News item 1: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

[Duncan]

Zac Medico posted on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:57:30 -0700 as excerpted:

> On 09/09/2012 02:42 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
>> <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote:
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>> So the news item was a bit ambiguous on if I wanted to make the change
>> myself to the new locations when I could actually make the change.
>> Current portage supports it? Or is their a new version coming which I
>> would need?
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> It's been supported in stable portage since portage-2.1.9.24 stabilized
> in November/December 2010:

Zac,

To your knowlege (IOW have you tested) having /etc/make.conf either a 
symlink to /etc/portage/make.conf or a simple one-line
"source /etc/portage/make.conf"?

Back when I first became aware of the movement toward
/etc/portage/make.conf, I'd guess in late 2010 or early 2011 given your 
dates, I tried both setting only /etc/portage/make.conf, which failed due 
to some third party utility (which I'd hope has been fixed now but I've 
not tested it), and making /etc/make.conf a simple symlink/source, which 
caused portage some indigestion.

So I'm wondering if the latter problem's now (tested) fixed, and people 
can use the new location but still put either a compatibility symlink or 
source at the old location to keep old scripts and the like working, 
without portage suffering the indigestion at the prospect that it did at 
least way back then.

If you haven't tested it and want me to, then file a bug if necessary, 
just say so, but it'd be nice to know whether you believe it to be 
working now, before I go try it again.

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