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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] Criticial news item "2010-02-25-layman-storage-path-change"
From:       Sebastian Pipping <sping () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2010-02-25 2:39:36
Message-ID: 4B85E2E8.9070902 () gentoo ! org
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On 02/25/10 01:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> =======================================================================
> Title: Layman storage path changed from version 1.3.0 on
> Author: Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2010-02-25
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: <app-portage/layman-1.3
> 
> Layman has been using /usr/local/portage/layman to store
> overlay checkouts from version 1.2.3 on.  As that path
> was violating the concept of keeping portage away from
> /usr/local the default of this storage location moves to
> 
>   /var/lib/layman
> 
> from version 1.3.0 on.  If you have never modified /etc/layman.cfg
> manually before, you may be tempted to let tools like etc-update
> or cfg-update blindly accept this new version of layman.cfg.

Err: /etc/layman/layman.cfg not /etc/layman.cfg

Fixed:
====================================================================
from version 1.3.0 on.  If you have never touched the file
/etc/layman/layman.cfg manually before, you may be tempted to let
tools like etc-update or cfg-update blindly accept this new version
of layman.cfg.
====================================================================


> As that would hide all your currently installed overlays from layman
> it's probably not what you want.  Your options are:
> 
>  A) Moving
>    Move your current location to /var/lib/layman before upgrading

Forgot about PORTDIR_OVERLAY:
====================================================================
 A) Moving
   Move your current location to /var/lib/layman before upgrading.
   Also update PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf accordingly.
====================================================================

> 
>  B) A symlink
>    Put a symlink to your current storage location at /var/lib/layman
>    before upgrading layman.
> 
>  C) Configuration
>    Reject the path change for layman.cfg when running tools like
>    etc-update or cfg-update blindly.  Be aware with this way you'll
>    have to do it for each layman update again.
> 
> PS: This news item is a reaction to users having run into this problem
> (see bug #306233).  Thanks to Volker Hemmann for reporting.
> =======================================================================

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