Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:16:24
Message-Id: alpine.NEB.2.23.451.2010151515040.25127@panix1.panix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile by Walter Dnes
1 On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote:
2
3 > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:00:36
4 > From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
5 > Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
6 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
7 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile
8 >
9 > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:28:52PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote
10 >
11 > > I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system.
12 > > portage is also upset.
13 > > !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in
14 > > '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf'
15 > > !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility
16 > >
17 > > I don't know what to do to clear this error.
18 >
19 > My /usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf is 2 lines...
20 >
21 > masters = gentoo
22 > auto-sync = false
23 >
24 > From https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/repos.conf
25 >
26 > "auto-sync = false"
27 >
28 > ...means that your local repo does not sync when you run "emerge
29 > --sync". This means if you have a local repo, you manually control when
30 > it syncs. BTW, what would this have to do with efi variables?
31 >
32 The portage problem only came up close to when I found out the machine
33 hasn't got efi-variables.
34 >
35
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