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On Sunday 28 November 2010 15:28:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 11:07 on Sunday 28 November 2010, Mick did |
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> opine thusly: |
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> > > This doesn't look right. layman has never installed overlays in that |
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> > > location for me. |
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> > Hmm ... it does for me! o_O |
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> > $ ls -la /var/lib/layman/enlightenment/ |
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> > total 16 |
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> > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 25 Nov 27 10:33 . |
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> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8 Nov 27 10:33 .. |
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> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Nov 27 10:33 app-admin |
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> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Nov 27 10:33 app-misc |
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> Well now, that's just fscking brain dead. Putting data files into areas of |
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> the file system where executables were there first. Tut, tut, tsk, tsk. |
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> Now that I think about it, I recall layman doing something like this the |
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> first time I used it. It drives me batty, along with portage putting the |
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> tree in /usr/portage so now layman.cfg has this on all my machines |
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> storage : /var/portage/local/layman |
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> and I *always* change $PORTDIR to be /var/portage |
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> I'd forgotten *why* I always do this. Thanks for the reminder. |
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The plot thickens ... |
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I seem to have set up: |
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp |
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PORTDIR=/usr/portage |
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DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles |
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PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages |
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PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage |
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage |
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and fair enough layman is in there: |
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$ ls -la /usr/local/portage/ |
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total 2 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Jun 10 16:38 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 13 Jun 8 22:16 .. |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jun 10 16:38 layman |
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but it's empty, except for a make.conf file: |
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$ cat /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf |
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" |
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I am guessing that updating/reinstalling layman shifted storage around to its |
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default: |
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storage : /var/lib/layman |
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and the make.conf file in there says: |
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$ cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf |
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" |
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/var/lib/layman/enlightenment |
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$PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
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" |
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I recall that after some version the default layman overlays location changed |
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and there was a post in this list too (but forget when). |
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Perhaps if you post a bug for a more sane storage location, then the layman |
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devs will make a more considered decision on this. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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