Bug 683912

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: warn about /distfiles, /local, and /packages in ebuild repositories
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core - Configuration	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, fturco
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666554 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378603
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	683434
Bug Blocks:	240187

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-04-20 18:25:00 UTC

With the latest portage release, tracked by bug 683434, the default configuration no longer nests /distfiles and /packages inside the main ebuild repository (bug 378603). Once the release tracked by bug 683434 has been stabilized, it makes sense to begin warning about nested directories like these. Eventually these directories can be dropped from the excludes that were added for bug 666554:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=b587fc874ce95064139ba85552e146da957cce9e

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-04-20 18:52:24 UTC

The warning can suggest to migrate to the new locations approved by the council, as shown in this commit for bug 378603:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=ef8469befbd7b61f1bae8f21ffd95e0c0306a4f8

DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"

For a /local subdirectory, it can take /var/db/repos/gentoo as an example, and suggest to use /var/db/repos/local instead.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-07-28 22:10:10 UTC

Note that default RPMDIR also used to be under /usr/portage (see bug 687734), but apparently practically nobody used it, since it was never a member of the default excludes.