Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/25/2014 12:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/10/2014 17:45, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/25/2014 12:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/10/2014 17:45, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/25/2014 12:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 October 2014 12:45:05 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 25 Oct 2014 17:45:05 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/25/2014 01:49 PM, Mick wrote: I haven't touched this on my systems yet. As a matter of fact, I totally forgot about it! (Old age creeps up on you) :-p I haven't bothered with it either, I really like being able to do: PORTDIR=$REPOS/gentoo-x86 PORTDIR_OVERLAY= emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/7/2014 5:56 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to configure it. Ok, did I miss a news item on this? Is this discussed in detail somewhere?

[gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles where they are. This is how it looks now: $ grep DIR= /etc/portage/make.conf DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 8 October 2014 1:09:54 AM AEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Afternoon all, As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles where they are. This is how it looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:09:54 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: This seems to work OK, except for eix-update, which gives me this: $ eix-update Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) .. [0] gentoo /var/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 October 2014 01:29:59 Bruce Schultz wrote: Check /etc/portage/repos.conf That's it! Many thanks, Bruce. -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-07 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles where they are. This is how it looks now: $ grep DIR=

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-07 17:57, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2014-10-07 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles where they are. This is how it

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
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. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: 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