Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:58:48 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org>:
> Hello,
>
> Was reviewing older news items and was wondering about this one:
>
> "# eselect news read 12
> 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move
> Title make.conf and make.profile move
> Author Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <jmbsvice...@gentoo.org>
> Posted 2012-09-09
> Revision 1
>
> Starting next week, new stages will have make.conf and make.profile
> moved from /etc to /etc/portage. This is a change in the installation
> defaults, that will only affect new installs so it doesn't affect
> current systems.
>
> Current users don't need to do anything. But if you want to follow the
> preferred location, you may want to take the chance to move the files
> in your system(s) to the new location."
>
> My question is, what if they are in both locations? Which ones are used?
> I would assume that portage now looks first in /etc/portage and uses
> those if it finds them, and if not, looks in /etc - but the news item is
> incomplete on this question.
When in doubt, read the man page (make.conf(5)):
"[...]
DESCRIPTION
This file contains various variables that are used by Portage.
Portage will check
the currently-defined environment variables first for any settings. If
no environ‐
ment settings are found, Portage then checks the make.conf
files. Both
/etc/make.conf and /etc/portage/make.conf are checked (if present),
and settings
from /etc/portage/make.conf will override settings from /etc/make.conf.
[...]"
HTH
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