Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 06:33:58PM -0500, Andrew Udvare wrote: > The first machine is on a 17.1 profile, and migration was relatively > simple, and worked. I did it based on this post: > > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8373904.html?sid=5c30f451df89c01a6bbe0a8dadd77c36#8373904 I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 05:48:40PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > The portage ebuild has some code that automatically patches > /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals for existing installs. You can > update the setting there. Ah, I didn't look there in my search :). Cool, thanks much for the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 14/01/2020 17:05, Paul B. Henson wrote: > I recently installed a new server, and noticed that it is using > /var/cache/distfiles rather than /usr/portage/distfiles. looking at the > documentation, it seems that is the new default, and it says "new > installations" will use it. I have older

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 5:05 PM Paul B. Henson wrote: > > I recently installed a new server, and noticed that it is using > /var/cache/distfiles rather than /usr/portage/distfiles. looking at the > documentation, it seems that is the new default, and it says "new > installations" will use it. I

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
I recently installed a new server, and noticed that it is using /var/cache/distfiles rather than /usr/portage/distfiles. looking at the documentation, it seems that is the new default, and it says "new installations" will use it. I have older servers which are still using