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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 17:08:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:39:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> > > Check /etc/portage/repos.conf |
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>> > That's it! Many thanks, Bruce. |
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>> Indeed. That directory was either empty or absent on all my systems. |
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>> copying repos.conf from /usr/share/portage and modifying the path got rid |
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>> of the message. |
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> Shouldn't this file be populated by settings in /etc/portage/make.conf? |
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> I can't recall editing manually and it seems to have bespoke settings that I |
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> have in make.conf ... |
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Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting |
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from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to |
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configure it. |
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Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools |
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which parse make.conf directly. |
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