On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:11 PM Johannes Huber <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Am 09.07.2018 um 20:05 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:40 PM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> > >>>>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, William Hubbs wrote: > >> > >>> is there a tracker for when the portage tree can be moved out of > >>> /usr/portage by default? > >> > >>> If not, what is the status of us being able to do this? > >> > >> Please remind me, what was the plan for the new location? > >> Somewhere under /var/db or /var/lib, IIRC? > >> > > > > I'd also consider /var/cache here as well. FHS specifically suggests > > using it for web caches and the like (let's set aside the issue with > > making that global), though for the most part it is more metadata > > caching. A key principle is that it can be wiped without loss of > > data, and I think that is generally true for the repository since it > > can be synced. > > > > Stuff in /var/lib can't be deleted without some kind of loss of > > application state. /var/db isn't in FHS, and I note that even mysql > > sticks its stuff in /var/lib. > > > > Imho it would make sense to split up portage files with this change. > Move the tree (ebuilds, profiles etc) to /var/lib/... and the metadata > cache to /var/db as it can be regenerated out of the tree. >
Are you talking about the metadata that gets synced as part of the repository? Conceptually I like the idea of splitting it out, but IMO the whole repository is really just one big cache, so keeping it together since it always has to be consistent isn't a huge problem. If you're talking about the stuff in /var/cache/edb, then that should be separate from the repository, but should still be in cache. I'd probably create /var/cache/portage, with subdirectories for repositories (with a subdir for each one synced by portage), edb, distfiles, and binary packages. /var/cache/portage/repos/main /var/cache/portage/repos/my-favorite-overlay /var/cache/portage/distfiles /var/cache/portage/edb The stuff in /var/db/pkg should probably go in /var/lib/portage/pkg or something like that, at least long-term. -- Rich
