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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?]
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:17:09
Message-Id: 20161027010800.16142.1D9B7DEA@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?] by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2016-10-26 21:39, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > $ grep -r x-portage /etc/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/share/portage
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5 Nothing.
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7 > AIUI /usr/share/portage/repos.conf sets the defaults, which are
8 > overridden by the file in /etc. That's how it happens here.
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10 Even making /usr/share/portage/repos.conf a symlink to
11 /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf, and adding an extra x-portage
12 section to the latter with a duplicated "location = " setting changed
13 nothing. This looks like a bug. Any portage devs here?
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15 OTOH, just making /usr/portage itself a symlink to the new location
16 seems to work fine; portage even resolves the symlink in all its
17 messages. --sync works too.
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19 When you moved your tree, have you in fact removed /usr/portage, or have
20 you left it in place but empty?
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22 Do you use any overlays? (I do.)
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