[gentoo-dev] Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

[gentoo-dev] Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

[Burton Samograd]

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Hello all,

Is there any problems with deleting the contents of /var/tmp/portage
(or whatever PORTAGE_TMP is pointing to)?  I'm just curious since
/var/ is defined as "a place to hold temp or program data between
reboots" where as /tmp is just for temp data, and I don't want to kill
anything.

burton

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

[Stuart Bouyer]

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On 木, 2002-09-12 at 01:28, Burton Samograd wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there any problems with deleting the contents of /var/tmp/portage
> (or whatever PORTAGE_TMP is pointing to)?  I'm just curious since
> /var/ is defined as "a place to hold temp or program data between
> reboots" where as /tmp is just for temp data, and I don't want to kill
> anything.
> 
> burton

No problem as long as you don't delete the /var/tmp/portage dir itself.
It is the area where emerge does it's compiling, so DON'T delete it
while emerging anything or the emerge will crash and burn - I did this
once 2 hours into emerge-ing mozilla on another virtual console, before
I learnt of the wonders of ccache.

Stu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 18:57, Stuart Bouyer wrote:
> On 木, 2002-09-12 at 01:28, Burton Samograd wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Is there any problems with deleting the contents of /var/tmp/portage
> > (or whatever PORTAGE_TMP is pointing to)?  I'm just curious since
> > /var/ is defined as "a place to hold temp or program data between
> > reboots" where as /tmp is just for temp data, and I don't want to kill
> > anything.
> >
> > burton
>
> No problem as long as you don't delete the /var/tmp/portage dir itself.
> It is the area where emerge does it's compiling, so DON'T delete it
> while emerging anything or the emerge will crash and burn - I did this
> once 2 hours into emerge-ing mozilla on another virtual console, before
> I learnt of the wonders of ccache.
>

If you're not running portage at all you can delete the portage dir itself 
too. As well as the portage-pkg dir.

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

[Burton Samograd]

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> If you're not running portage at all you can delete the portage dir itself 
> too. As well as the portage-pkg dir.
> 

Where is this portage-pkg directory that you speak of?  Are you
meaning /usr/local/portage/distfiles ?

burton

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 12 September 2002 18:41, Burton Samograd wrote:
> > If you're not running portage at all you can delete the portage dir
> > itself too. As well as the portage-pkg dir.
>
> Where is this portage-pkg directory that you speak of?  Are you
> meaning /usr/local/portage/distfiles ?
>
> burton

/var/tmp/portage-pkg

Paul

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