On 2013-10-01 8:46 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
I know that it is probably trivial, but I like to read official docs for
things like this...
It is trivial. All that it is, is a path to where some stuff is. That's
all, nothing more.
Ok, thanks... but (call me anal, because I am) I still think this
deserves at least a tiny mention in the formal documentation somewhere,
even if its just on a a wiki page or whatever.
Also, obviously the man docs for portage and make.conf should be updated...
Change this in make.conf:
PORTDIR="/var/portage"
DISTDIR="/var/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/var/packages"
Hmmm...
Currently, everything is in /usr/portage:
/usr/portage
/usr/portage/distfiles
/usr/portage/packages
But the new defaults are 3 separate directories as you specified above?
Or was that a typo, and they should be:
/var/portage
/var/portage/distfiles
/var/portage/packages
?
Another question...
Since these are the new defaults, how do new installs define them? Are
they explicitly set in make.conf now? Or is it somewhere else more
low-level - and if so, wouldn't it be better to change it there once
I've moved everything and confirmed it is working properly?
move the directories to the new location
Is a cp -rp /usr/portage /var/portage (repeat for the others) sufficient?
and run any old emerge command of your choice. If you left something
out, you'll get a message on the screen.
You can have these directories any place you want and nothing breaks by
moving them around. The only change is the shipped default. So there are
loads of this you could worry about in IT, this ain't one of 'em
Heh... ok, thanks, but you see, I worry about *everything* (maybe that
is one reason I rarely get bit badly doing things like this).
