Bug 90257

Summary:	/usr/portage instead of /var/portage?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabiano Sidler <fabianosidler>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal	CC:	m.debruijne
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabiano Sidler 2005-04-24 10:06:04 UTC

Finally, I could induce myself to post this issue:
On desktop systems, /usr probably resides on a single, writable mounted partition with the rest of the filesystem. On server systems, it is likely that /usr is swapped out to a separate, read-only mounted partition. This causes portage no longer to be allowed to write to /usr, unless the administrator remounts it rw, before syncing f.e., and then again remount it ro. I therefore suggest to change the default value for PORTDIR to /var/portage instead of /usr/portage.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-25 00:35:59 UTC

If you really need to mount /usr ro, then you can have a dedicated partition for /usr/portage mounted rw, no?

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-25 01:18:22 UTC

I don't even want to imagine how many systems that would break. Personally I've moved it to /srv/portage/porttree, but for the general public I'd push this back until there are real changes to the repo structure warranting this.