Moving Stuff Around and a Tip

I’m in the process of changing the directory structure of all my builds on Funtoo.org, and everything is getting uploaded again right now. That means that stages won’t be available for several hours.

I am putting all the official Gentoo stuff in http://www.funtoo.org/linux/gentoo, and all the official Funtoo stuff in http://www.funtoo.org/linux/funtoo. I am also separating snapshots so they are in their own “snapshots” directories, under gentoo and funtoo respectively, and new snapshots (both gentoo and funtoo) will all have the “portage-“ prefix in their filename. I think this makes things a bit more straightforward, and also opens up the possibility of adding unstable Gentoo builds or stable Funtoo builds in the future. But the primary motivation is to just have a saner directory structure. I will also be committing changes to Metro so that its default fslayout is updated to follow this pattern.

EDIT: Also, in an effort to free up Web site real estate, you’ll notice that I’ve removed the OpenVZ section from http://www.funtoo.org. I am still building OpenVZ templates for all my funtoo builds, but I’m now storing them alongside the respective funtoo stage3 they were built from.

TIP: Some people have posted in the blog comments that they are having “emerge --sync” failures. If git is unable to update your tree, you can use the “git reset --hard” (run when you are inside the /usr/portage directory tree) to reset your tree to match the upstream funtoo.org tree. Any local changes will be lost, but “emerge --sync” should work again. A “git reset --hard” is typically needed when you abort a sync mid-stream, as it leaves your Portage tree in an inconsistent state. Hope this helps some people.