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 environā 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 -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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