Hello!


By default layman currently stores overlays into

/usr/local/portage/layman

(was /usr/portage/local/layman before that).
As of bug 253725 [1] that's not without problems.

I would like to get it right with the next switch.
Would

/var/lib/layman

do well? /var/cache/layman seems inadequate as it might not be
regenerated [2] without losses (as upstream moves along).

Would be great to hear a few opinions. Thanks!



Sebastian


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/253725
[2] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:36:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> By default layman currently stores overlays into
>
> /usr/local/portage/layman
>
> (was /usr/portage/local/layman before that).
> As of bug 253725 [1] that's not without problems.

I don't think it should be changed again. It is quite annoying to have to
hunt down where the $next layman location is.

Why can't layman create /usr/local/portage/layman at runtime if it doesn't
exist and then you can remove the keepdir line from the ebuild??

-Jeremy

>
> I would like to get it right with the next switch.
> Would
>
> /var/lib/layman
>
> do well? /var/cache/layman seems inadequate as it might not be
> regenerated [2] without losses (as upstream moves along).
>
> Would be great to hear a few opinions. Thanks!
>
>
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/253725
> [2] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:36:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping
<sping@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Would
>
> /var/lib/layman
>
> do well?

+1

--
Alex Legler | Gentoo Security / Ruby
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On Friday 15 January 2010 20:44:43 Alex Legler wrote:
> > /var/lib/layman
> >
> > do well?
>
> +1
>
-1, /usr/local/layman?
--
Cheers
Dawid Węgliński

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On 15-01-2010 21:25, Dawid Węgliński wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 20:44:43 Alex Legler wrote:
>>> /var/lib/layman
>>>
>>> do well?
>>
>> +1
>>
> -1, /usr/local/layman?

Wouldn't that break the rule that /usr/local is reserved for users / admins?

- From the alternatives, /var/lib/layman doesn't sound right. If
/var/cache/layman doesn't work, what about /var/spool/layman instead?

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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
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On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:33:15 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> On 15-01-2010 21:25, Dawid Węgliński wrote:
> > On Friday 15 January 2010 20:44:43 Alex Legler wrote:
> >>> /var/lib/layman
> >>>
> >>> do well?
> >>
> >> +1
> >
> > -1, /usr/local/layman?
>
> Wouldn't that break the rule that /usr/local is reserved for users /
> admins?
>
> From the alternatives, /var/lib/layman doesn't sound right. If
> /var/cache/layman doesn't work, what about /var/spool/layman instead?
>

Or just leave it up to user with elog message... Or ask him first to set
variable in /etc/make.conf?

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Cheers
Dawid Węgliński

2010/1/15 Dawid Węgliński <cla@gentoo.org>:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 20:44:43 Alex Legler wrote:
>> > Â* /var/lib/layman
>> >
>> > do well?
>>
>> +1
>>
> -1, /usr/local/layman?

/usr/local/ is a location the system should avoid. Somewhere in /var/
seems to be the logical place.

Cheers,
--
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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