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* Mike Kazantsev (mk.fraggod@×××××.com) [02.06.09 17:22]: |
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> Answer in a neighbor thread reminded me of a question that puzzled me |
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> from the start: what's the rationale behind moving layman tree |
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> from /usr/portage/local to /usr/local/portage? |
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> I can see why all ebuilds belong in the same /usr/portage tree - |
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> separate (optimized) fs, easy to backup (snapshot?) or omit from backup |
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> (a lot of small files, completely irrelevant to system operation), easy |
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> to share between several machines along w/ packages built from it, |
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> and /usr/portage/packages should be inconsistent w/o layman tree, if |
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> it's used at all... but moving it to /usr/local, which isn't used |
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> by gentoo at all seem completely irrational to me, why? |
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Well my backup strategy only saves the contents of /usr/local all other |
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things beneath /usr are easily recoverable. And since this place also |
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contains the local overlay with some handmade ebuilds, ebuilds from |
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b.g.o and no longer maintained ebuilds, I think this was a rather |
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intelligent move. And sometimes you do not want any further upgrade in |
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one of your layman overlays, so things might differ from the source and |
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are harder to recover than from the attic of portage. Or even the |
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overlay may vanish, but you need to keep the ebuilds. So you can sanely |
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do a backup just from /usr/local. |
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packages/ is another thing, because here is the most common use case |
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is to build them once and then share them between many computers. And in |
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such scenarios you mostly share the whole portage tree via nfs. |
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> Oh, and I know that I can keep it all in the same place, of course, and |
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> I always do just that, still... |
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> Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net |
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