(I've got a bad habit of saving unfinished emails in the drafts folder and then forgetting about them. I found this one while cleaning it up and thought it might still be informative.)
Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2017, 17:47:18 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Saturday 15 Jul 2017 16:07:26 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2017, 15:11:03 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > > On Saturday 15 Jul 2017 12:14:52 Daniel Wagener wrote: > > > > On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:00:01 +0100 > > > > > > Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Why not just go there and do a "git diff"? > > > > It will show you what changed – maybe that gives an Idea what happened > > > > > > It showed me that I'd changed "masters =" to "masters = gentoo" in > > > layout.conf, which I knew because I'd been told to at some time. > > > > That's ridiculous. You're configuring the main portage tree to be a > > master of itself. Search for "masters" in portage(5) for an explanation > > of what that option is for (it's mainly interesting for overlays). > > Nevertheless, I did only follow an instruction in a Gentoo wiki page. It > said the change was "for future compatibility" or some such. I wouldn't just > have made it up for myself. Hmm, now that you mention it, I vaguely remember something like that. (Also, for a better explanation of masters, see [0].) Searching for it now (longer than I should have), I see it's a warning from portage that you get when you leave it out completely. > --->8 > > > What probably happened is that this is the first time something changed in > > layout.conf since you added the "masters" line, thus why git never > > complained. > > --->8 > > > Since git is a version control system, it won't blindly overwrite local > > changes, so it's best not to make any :) (so don't add that change back > > in, since it's pointless anyway). Always use your own overlay if you > > want to make changes. > > > > HTH > > Yes. Thanks. [0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repository_format/metadata/layout.conf#masters -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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