Le lun. 11 nov. 2019 à 14:38, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 11 November 2019 13:00:20 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Mickaël Bucas wrote: > >>> Le lun. 11 nov. 2019 à 09:35, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >>>> On Monday, 11 November 2019 08:25:06 GMT n952162 wrote: > >>>>> I re-installed gentoo from the minimal boot cd (amd64), re-emerged > >>>>> everything from my old, saved world file, overnight, and its up and > >>>>> running, more or less. Then, I wanted to see what was available and > >>>>> discovered, there's no /usr/portage directory! What did I do wrong? > >>>> Nothing. > >>>> > >>>> /usr/portage has now moved to /var/db/repos/gentoo/. > >>>> > >>>> /usr/portage/distfiles has moved to /var/cache/distfiles/ > >>>> > >>>> Portage will work fine with both legacy and new fs locations. > >>>> -- > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Mick > >>> My two systems are currently using the old locations. > >>> Is there a documentation about the way to migrate to the new locations > >>> without breaking things ? > >>> The profile links comes to mind but other things are probably necessary ! > >>> > >>> Has anyone already done the migration ? > >>> In this case do you have advices or warnings about it ? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> Best regards > >>> Mickaël Bucas > >> Others have posted some good info but sometimes a example that is in use > >> can help a lot. Here's what is in my make.conf: > >> > >> > >> root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep var > >> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage/ > >> source /var/lib/layman/make.conf > >> DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles/" > >> PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" > >> PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree" > >> root@fireball / # > >> > >> > >> The last three are what you need to look at. > > ... AND ... > > > > the last thing (PORTDIR) is what you should no longer have specified in > > /etc/ > > portage/make.conf, but in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf: > > > > $ grep location /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf > > #location = /usr/portage <==legacy portage fs location > > location = /var/db/repos/gentoo > > > > HTH. > > > Ahhhh, that one line is in there so I guess it got moved at some point, > likely the devs had some magic going on and did it for me. ;-) I'll > comment that out in make.conf, so I don't confuse myself later on. :/ > Come to think of it, I'll add a comment as to where it moved to as well > so I don't have to go dig for it some day. > > Thanks. This will help the OP as well. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Thanks for all explanations. I've moved the Gentoo tree and distfiles from /usr to /var. Having these in /usr has always felt strange to me but I never thought it was so easy to move them !
Best regards Mickaël Bucas
