Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable

2013-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:43:54 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > Do I need to re-run layman now to point it to the new repo locations? You need to edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg to change the storage setting. -- Neil Bothwick With free advice you often get what you pay for. signature.asc Description: PG

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable

2013-12-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-12-04 10:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I've now copied and rearranged /usr/portage, so that I have the above, and I also copied /usr/local/portage to /var/portage/local. And just ran eix-update for the first time since moving portage, and got a couple of strange references to the old locati

[gentoo-user] Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable

2013-12-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-10-02 4:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-10-02 2:24 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, thanks much guys... guess I'll go with Alans layout as it makes the most sense to me: /var/portage /var/distfiles /var/packages Actually, I think I like: /var/portage/tree /var/portage/distfiles /var/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2013 07:28:18 Tanstaafl wrote: > I've never used the -x option with cp... what exactly is meant by 'stay > on same filesystem’?Should "Stay on same filesystem" is for the case in which you have another partition mounted somewhere in the tree below the current working directo

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Current command I'll be using: rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/ I had initially been planning on just using cp, trying now to remember why I decided on using rsync - I think it was someone here who said it would be better