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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:28:56
Message-Id: hmh0s1$knc$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation" by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
1 On 03/01/2010 08:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
2 > (this is a rather obvious fix...)
3 >
4 > eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the
5 > presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman
6 > to /var/lib/layman. It offers three ways to deal with this location
7 > change. I chose alternative A. (actually moving the directory and
8 > updating make.conf and layman make.conf) and wanted to do it before I
9 > forgot about it.
10 >
11 > However, until layman is actually upgraded to version 1.3x, the
12 > script/executable will reference /usr/local/portage/layman and fail. So
13 > layman users choosing alternative A. now may want to add a step; after
14 > moving the directory, put a soft link in the /usr/local/portage pointing
15 > to the new location; i.e.
16 >
17 > cd /usr/local/portage; ln -s /var/lib/layman layman
18
19 Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there.

Replies

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[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation" 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation" Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>