Apparently 'PORTDIR' is deprecated. What do I use instead?

[DanielC]

Hello,

So, I've had a Gentoo install for just a few days. I just ran "euse -a" for the first time to see what it does, and I was greeted with a warning:

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WARNING: 'portageq envvar PORTDIR' is deprecated. Use any of 'get_repos, get_repo_path, repos_config' instead.

I am too new to know what this is trying to say. I can see that there is a variable called PORTDIR in my /etc/portage/make.conf file:

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PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="${PORTDIR}/distfiles"
PKGDIR="${PORTDIR}/packages"

Could someone help me figure out what I'm supposed to change?

Cheers,
Daniel.

[charles17]

Could someone help me figure out what I'm supposed to change?

See
* https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-ite ... anges.html
* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync
* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/repos.conf

[hasufell]

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# PORTDIR
portageq get_repo_path / gentoo
# DISTDIR
portageq distdir
# PKGDIR
portageq pkgdir

[DanielC]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be thick-headed, but I don't understand. I looked at the links from charles17 but I don't see how they relate to my problem. I see that the links are about how to configure files in repos.conf/gentoo.conf but I don't see anything about PORTDIR, or get_repo_path. I do have a gentoo.conf file, and its contents look sane.

hasufell, thanks for the help; I can see that those commands produce the correct PORTDIR, DISTDIR and PKGDIR, but I don't know what to do with that information. Gentoo seems to have a problem with the fact that PORTDIR is set at all. What am I supposed to do about that? Should I just comment it out?

Thank you for your patience.

Cheers,
Daniel.

[Buffoon]

You do not set any of them in make.conf if you are using defaults. Delete those lines or comment them out.

[DanielC]

You do not set any of them in make.conf if you are using defaults. Delete those lines or comment them out.

Thanks!

[Hu]

Those lines were added to the default /etc/portage/make.conf for the benefit of tools which have not yet been updated to the techniques that hasufell showed. They are safe to leave as-is. Removing them may cause some legacy tools not to work right.

As a user, there is nothing for you to change. If no one else had reported the issue, you could report it to the maintainer of euse.

[Buffoon]

I did not check all of my boxes, but the ones I checked did not have these variables set for me. All are several years old installs. Is a new install different?

[khayyam]

hasufell, thanks for the help; I can see that those commands produce the correct PORTDIR, DISTDIR and PKGDIR, but I don't know what to do with that information. Gentoo seems to have a problem with the fact that PORTDIR is set at all. What am I supposed to do about that? Should I just comment it out?

Daniel ... it has nothing to do with whatever is set in make.conf, the issue is that euse is calling portageq with the now obsolete parameters. So, edit euse and change the get_portdir() function ... comment the top line and add the bottom.

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   #eval $(portageq envvar -v PORTDIR)
   : ${PORTDIR="$(portageq get_repo_path $(portageq envvar EROOT) gentoo)"}

best ... khay