Re: [gentoo-user] transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?]

[Bill Kenworthy]

On 27/10/16 02:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2016-10-15 22:03, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>>>     PORTDIR = [path]
>>>
>>>               Defines the location of main repository. This variable is
>>>               deprecated in favor of settings in repos.conf. If you
>>>               change this, you must update your
>>>               /etc/portage/make.profile symlink accordingly.  Defaults
>>>               to /usr/portage.
>>>
>>> So, 2 warnings ... looks dangerous after all.
>>
>> Not really warnings, just advice. Yes, you should really use the new way
>> of setting it. Then run eselect profile to reset your profile symlink.
>>
>> All you are doing is moving the portage tree to a filesystem that you
>> backup and telling portage abut it. There's nothing dangerous about it
>> and you won't stop your system working even if you get it wrong. I do
>> that on all my Gentoo boxes as I don't want dynamic data in /usr.
>
> So I have done this, but now every portage operation gives me:
>
> !!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute
> set to nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage'
>
> There is no [x-portage] section in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf,
> the file I modified to point to the new location.  My modification was:
>
> < location = /usr/portage
>> location = /var/lib/portage/ports
>
> and this was in the [gentoo] section.
>
> Apart from that file, there is also
> /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf, but I thought this was just a
> template for the one in /etc.  The original contents were the same,
> ie. location = /usr/portage, and _no_ [x-portage] section.
>
> I am confused, just as I feared would happen :-(
>

No its not a template - portage reads it and throws a wobbly.  I just
copy /etc/portage/repos.d/gentoo.conf over it (or whatever you are using
on your system).  I think its supposed to be a default fallback, and it
all workd regardless even with the error.

BillK