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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, catalyst@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:50:10
Message-Id: 50D0C8D2.1010405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var by Zac Medico
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4 On 12/18/2012 01:38 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
5 > On 12/17/2012 02:19 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
6 >> Currently we put portage into /usr/portage and all related stuff is to
7 >> be in the subfolders there (distfiles, binpkg).
8 >>
9 >> I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for
10 >> /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to
11 >> make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P).
12 >>
13 >> The only reason why we have this currently in usr is that bsd ports
14 >> put their stuff in there and I suppose Daniel just did the same.
15 >>
16 >> With respect to reality how stuff is done in the linux land all the
17 >> variable data should be in /var so we should adjust and move it in
18 >> there too.
19 >>
20 >> What would you think?
21 >
22 > I like the idea. As noted in bug #378603 [1], I'd like the portage
23 > ebuild to ensure that the locations don't unexpectedly change for
24 > existing installs.
25 >
26 > Will it break catalyst? If so, we might begin the migration by fixing
27 > catalyst and having to set the new default locations in the make.conf
28 > that it generates.
29 >
30 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378603#c1
31 >
32 Yes, it will break catalyst. However, if the folder that the portage
33 tree goes in is still something/something/portage then it shouldn't be
34 hard to fix.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>