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On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:49:37 +0100 |
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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 25 Apr 2015 14:07:38 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync |
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> > The 'Migration' section states that: |
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> > If /etc/portage/repos.conf does not exist: |
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> > root # mkdir /etc/portage/repos.conf |
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> > root # cp /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf |
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> > /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf |
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> > Which is what I did on one of my systems, while on the other, |
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> > '/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf' seems to have come into being |
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> > without any interference on my part, so to speak. |
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> Ahh! Well spotted. Thank you Alexander. The mystery as to why some |
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> systems were converted and others require manual intervention |
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> remains ... |
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I made the transition manually the other day. I guess I might as well |
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toss into this thread a couple of minor roadbumps I hit. |
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The filename gentoo doesn't matter to portage AFAICT, but it |
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does matter to other tools, e.g. mirrorselect, so use gentoo.conf. |
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<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman#Using_.27repos.conf.27_method_.28default_method_for_app-portage.2Flayman-2.1.0_or_later_.29> |
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says `layman-updater -R` will update repos.conf/layman.conf as long as |
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you have >=layman-2.1.0, but with layman-2.1.0-r3, I couldn't get it to |
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work. I moved to layman-2.3.0 and it created the file fine. |
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