Ulrich Mueller posted on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:11:39 +0100 as excerpted: > Also I wonder if local overlays should be in /var/cache? It might not > always be possible to restore them.
Good point. My local overlay's in /usr/local/ (which is a dedicated partition I actually keep several backups of, including my netbook's copy), for exactly that reason. (Actually, /usr/local is a symlink, to a shorter path that's the actual partition, /l, and both PORTDIR and my local overlay are simply "p" (/p being a symlink to the gentoo tree in /usr/src), so I configure and access the overlay as /l/p, and simply /p for the gentoo tree, but the /l partition is also reachable via /usr/local symlink. But however it's identified, the partition reachable as either /l or /usr/local contains the local overlay, and is backed up multiple ways including on an entirely separate machine, which its own copy of the same /l aka /usr/ local.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
