From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:10:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiAKvfoyNCYxsNF5dthCkcwgcf=NE6PwqFXR77WGSU_vQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20696.22886.283357.434923@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenň wrote:
>
>>> /var/cache/packages/ PKGDIR
>
>> Maybe /var/spool/binpkgs ?
>
> This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like printer
> queues or outgoing mail that are typically deleted after processing.
Then treat it like garbage collection. Some maintenance action could
go through and remove the files which aren't fetch-restricted. Portage
could do this at the end of its cycle, or it could be set up as a cron
job, or it could require a manual maintenance step.
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-24 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-20 17:27 [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories? Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-20 18:00 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-12-20 18:12 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-20 18:19 ` [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around Ian Stakenvicius
2012-12-20 18:21 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-12-20 20:25 ` Rich Freeman
2012-12-20 20:49 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-12-20 20:46 ` Zac Medico
2012-12-20 21:23 ` Rich Freeman
2012-12-20 22:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-20 21:54 ` [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories? Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-12-20 18:10 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-12-21 6:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-12-21 7:25 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-20 18:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2012-12-20 20:50 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-12-22 17:33 ` Luca Barbato
2012-12-24 2:17 ` Sebastian Pipping
2012-12-24 9:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-24 12:33 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-24 12:33 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-12-24 13:32 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-24 14:00 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-12-24 15:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-24 16:15 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-12-25 11:02 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-12-24 16:09 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-12-25 9:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-12-25 9:51 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-12-25 11:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Stuge
2012-12-24 14:10 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-12-24 13:06 ` Michał Górny
2012-12-24 16:08 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-12-24 9:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-12-24 14:47 ` vivo75
2012-12-24 2:20 ` Sebastian Pipping
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