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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:40:59 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> > All you are doing is moving the portage tree to a filesystem that you |
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> > backup and telling portage abut it. There's nothing dangerous about it |
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> > and you won't stop your system working even if you get it wrong. I do |
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> > that on all my Gentoo boxes as I don't want dynamic data in /usr. |
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> So I have done this, but now every portage operation gives me: |
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> !!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute |
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> set to nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage' |
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> There is no [x-portage] section in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf, |
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> the file I modified to point to the new location. My modification was: |
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> < location = /usr/portage |
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> > location = /var/lib/portage/ports |
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> and this was in the [gentoo] section. |
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> Apart from that file, there is also |
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> /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf, but I thought this was just a |
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> template for the one in /etc. The original contents were the same, |
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> ie. location = /usr/portage, and _no_ [x-portage] section. |
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> I am confused, just as I feared would happen :-( |
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I never saw anything like this when making the change. Try |
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$ grep -r x-portage /etc/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/share/portage |
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to see if you can find any mention of x-portage. Also try |
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$ grep -r usr/portage /etc/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/share/portage |
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but that will get some hits from /usr/share/portage. |
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AIUI /usr/share/portage/repos.conf sets the defaults, which are |
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overridden by the file in /etc. That's how it happens here. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Drop your carrier .. we have you surrounded |
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