On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 17:08:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:39:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > > Check /etc/portage/repos.conf >> > >> > That's it! Many thanks, Bruce. >> >> Indeed. That directory was either empty or absent on all my systems. >> copying repos.conf from /usr/share/portage and modifying the path got rid >> of the message. > > > Shouldn't this file be populated by settings in /etc/portage/make.conf? > > I can't recall editing manually and it seems to have bespoke settings that I > have in make.conf ... >
Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to configure it. Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools which parse make.conf directly.
