On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 23:16 -0800, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:20 +0100 > Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Currently we put portage into /usr/portage and all related stuff is to > > be in the subfolders there (distfiles, binpkg). > > > > I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for > > /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to > > make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). > > > > The only reason why we have this currently in usr is that bsd ports > > put their stuff in there and I suppose Daniel just did the same. > > > > With respect to reality how stuff is done in the linux land all the > > variable data should be in /var so we should adjust and move it in > > there too. > > > > What would you think? > > do it. stick it somewhere in /var. i have a small SLC SSD just for /var and > /usr/portage partitions, since those consistently incur high writes. dropping > to just one partition for all that i/o would be real nice. > > if this proposed change is made, please make sure to contact the GDP. while > we > don't update things like manpages or elog announcements, we would have a ton > of stuff to fix in gentoo.org/doc/en/ . also, make sure stuff is sorted out > on > the catalyst/releng end well in advance, so users aren't stuck with bad > stages.
Yes, Catalyst and the portage defaults will be changed in a co-ordinated manner. I've started poking around catalyst, but it has paths hard-coded nearly everywhere, despite it having passed config variables around most places. So, It is going to need code cleanup first. It will take me some time to get familiar enough with the code before I make many changes to clean it up. For the documentation, primarily the install handbook, perhaps it would be better to mention both locations, at least mention the old location so existing and old users won't be thrown for a loop. It will also need some attention in the forums where tons of threads will be referencing /usr/portage. Perhaps the docs team could start preparing the docs changes in a manner that will be easy to search/replace with the final correct locations when that decision is made. And YES Diego, it won't be /var/portage or /var/repositories, we heard you. From my rough tracking, I believe somewhere under /var/cache was majority vote. Anyway, once catalyst is ready it will be easy to set it to whatever is finally decided. -- Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
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