Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 16/12/2020 13:51, gevisz wrote: >> How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook >> "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain >> the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo >> ebuild >> repository (by default located at /var/db/repos/gentoo) which already >> takes around 650 MiB." >> that can be found here: >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks ? >> >> Have I correctly understood that the Gentoo ebuild repository default >> location >> is /var/db/repos/gentoo but virtually everybody relocate it to /usr/ >> during >> the installation process? >> >> Why not change its default location to /usr/ in this case? >> >> Where the Gentoo ebuild repository should be allocated? Why? > > Wherever you want. I have on /mnt/Data/gentoo/portage, so... meh :P > > >
This is true. Where can be set in make.conf and /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf. I have mine in /var/cache here. At one point, that seemed to be the place it was going to end up. Then it changed after I moved mine. :/ Examples for OP. /etc/portage/make.conf:DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles/" /etc/portage/make.conf:PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf:location = /var/cache/portage/tree root@fireball / # ls -l /var/cache/portage/ total 152 drwxrwxr-x 3 portage portage 143360 Dec 13 22:42 distfiles drwxrwxr-x 108 portage portage 4096 Dec 13 22:40 packages drwxr-xr-x 174 portage portage 4096 Dec 12 18:25 tree root@fireball / # OP, with that info, it should help you put it wherever you want. Don't forget to check the permissions, owners and group settings too. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
