Bug 662982

Summary:	[TRACKER] New default locations for the Gentoo repository, distfiles, and binary packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bertrand, flow, fturco, gentoo, redneb, ulm, viklevin2, whissi
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	574752, 378603, 662996, 662998, 684908, 686618, 687734
Bug Blocks:

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2018-08-06 22:36:40 UTC

From https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180729-summary.txt:

> Default locations for repositories, distfiles, and binpkgs
> ==========================================================
> There was a brief discussion about the color of /var/db vs /var/lib,
> and if /var/cache is suitable for binary packages.
> 
> - Vote: Default locations for the Gentoo repository, distfiles, and
>   binary packages will be, respectively:
>      /var/db/repos/gentoo
>      /var/cache/distfiles
>      /var/cache/binpkgs
>   Accepted with 6 yes votes and 1 no vote.
> 
> - Vote: Change the name of the Gentoo repository snapshot (currently
>   portage-YYYYMMDD) to gentoo-YYYYMMDD.
>   Accepted unanimously.


On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:35 AM Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 08/06/2018 12:30 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> > All these changes as well as the catlayst changes need to be
> > co-ordinated so that snapshots and portage and stages don't precede the
> > docs changes.
>
> I suppose all of the docs changes can be made in advance, with mention
> of both old a new locations. These commands can be used to check the
> local configuration:
>
> portageq get_repo_path / gentoo
> portageq distdir
> portageq pkgdir

Comment 1 Michael 'veremitz' Everitt 2018-10-10 16:23:58 UTC

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Veremit/Gentoo_%27Tree%27_Relocation

I'm willing to take on any catalyst changes too .. whoever first identifies an issue, feel free to open a bug and assign to me, blocking this bug. TIA

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2019-06-07 17:01:09 UTC

[Commenting here, because there doesn't seem to be a separate bug for it.]
Many pages in the wiki have been updated, including the Handbook:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/Files#Storing_files

Comment 3 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2020-01-12 19:14:29 UTC

Council is waiting for the portage-* snapshots to be renamed gentoo-*.

Comment 4 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2021-01-10 20:19:53 UTC

Update from 2021-01-10 council@ meeting:

Whissi@ will follow up (possibly this week).