Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?]
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:49:21
Message-Id: 20161027084906.287b8f6f@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?] by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:16:47 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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3 > When you moved your tree, have you in fact removed /usr/portage, or have
4 > you left it in place but empty?
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6 I removed it entirely.
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8 > Do you use any overlays? (I do.)
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10 Yes I do, but they aren't under $PORTDIR so they wouldn't be affected.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 There are two hard things in computer science:
17 cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.