meta-repo: Can /usr/portage be deleted now?

[overkill]

Can /usr/portage be deleted now that /var/git/meta-repo stores all the ebuild info?

[Oleg Vinichenko]

yes

[Oleg Vinichenko]

yes

you can save the distfiles and pkgs (binary) if its a problem, otherwise /usr/portage can be zapped

[NikosAlexandris]

Hmm, really, can we wipe out the complete `/usr/portage` dir + subdirectories?

[overkill]

Thanks.  I already had moved distfiles and packages directories when I migrated to meta-repo.  IIRC, the instructions mentioned moving those directories to /var/cache/portage/

[cjubon]

If you wipe out /usr/portage, the /etc/portage/make.profile symlink becomes a dead link.

I additionally had to do:

rm /etc/portage/make.profile
ln -sf /var/git/meta-repo/kits/core-kit/profiles/funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/ /etc/portage/make.profile

I'm not sure if this is correct, as relevant documentation is lacking in https://github.com/funtoo/meta-repo/blob/master/README.rst.

[dhudson]

https://github.com/funtoo/meta-repo#using-meta-repo

tells to

rm /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf 

also says same on README.rst page.

so looks like you no longer need that lnk to /usr/portage...ect

[cjubon]

Thanks. i didn't ask about repos.conf but about make.profile.

I read the README.rst page carefully and did what it says. Nevertheless, I ran into major troubles after removing /usr/portage.

First, no profile is defined anymore:

me@work# epro list

...

WARNING: No arch defined. Please set.
WARNING: No build defined. Please set.
WARNING: No flavor defined. Please set.

If i make /etc/portage/make.profile a link to /var/git/meta-repo/kits/core-kit/profiles/funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/ as suggested above, epro gets broken:

me@work# epro arch x86-64bit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/epro", line 102, in <module>
    EgoModule.run_ego_module(action, econfig, args, VERSION)
  File "/usr/share/ego/python/ego/module.py", line 64, in run_ego_module
    ego_module(*args)
  File "/usr/share/ego/modules/profile.ego", line 299, in __call__
    super().__call__(*args)
  File "/usr/share/ego/python/ego/module.py", line 49, in __call__
    self.handle(**options)
  File "/usr/share/ego/modules/profile.ego", line 278, in handle
    handler(**options)
  File "/usr/share/ego/modules/profile.ego", line 198, in handle_single_profile_actions
    current_setting = list(self.tree.get_children(profile_type))[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

Second, tools like qsearch etc. do not work any more:

me@work# qsearch base64
search: open failed: /usr/portage: No such file or directory

 

Basically, this means that I cannot emerge anymore and my system is broken, for the first time that I'm using funtoo – and it's quite a couple of years!

[dhudson]

oh your right I got that wrong... sorry but you should have a dir /etc/portage/make.profile with a file called parent

I belive make.profile was a file before the change.

here is mine..

change your subaarch to reflect your hardware.

~$ cat /etc/portage/make.profile/parent
core-kit:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/arch/x86-64bit
core-kit:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/build/current
core-kit:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/arch/x86-64bit/subarch/amd64-piledriver
core-kit:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/flavor/workstation
core-kit:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/mix-ins/no-systemd
core-kit:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/mix-ins/mediadevice-audio-pro
xfce-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
net-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
python-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
core-hw-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
ruby-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
gnome-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
security-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
ml-lang-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
xorg-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
text-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
lisp-scheme-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
java-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
perl-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
games-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
desktop-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
haskell-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
php-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
lang-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
nokit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
science-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime

editors-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
core-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
kde-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
media-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime
dev-kit:funtoo/kits/python-kit/3.4-prime

 

[cjubon]

Thank you, dhudson.

Would you also be so kind to post

• 1.) output of ls -l /etc/portage/ (-l flag is important), and
• 2.) content of /etc/portage/make.profile/arch/x86-64bit/parent