From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HAsws-0001LZ-E9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:10:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0RJ9iT1018703; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:09:44 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0RJ5VLj014051 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:05:31 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so931419ugc for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:05:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=RtFBrQphV5Z57eV/6OCT/esv5W6JF7Th43uJRzPJu5bDGKcCTzZrIRAezEFwYjwUKdjgjj+dwaj3h6JaQQjtAHxEZq3sixBt5/bPwBaLYpLDkWDDVyP7p/XB3nhLLKYKhDxCok9HJCgL5rE+asFdXGr0J4d8ycmnmIOy2d+IcFA= Received: by 10.78.47.15 with SMTP id u15mr3089451huu.1169924731107; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.12? ( [81.86.47.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 18sm6100501hue.2007.01.27.11.05.30; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:05:30 -0800 (PST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:05:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1169921671.7304.12.camel@yatahaze.skynet.local> In-Reply-To: <1169921671.7304.12.camel@yatahaze.skynet.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701271905.20869.jeffrey.rollin@gmail.com> From: Jeffrey Rollin X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id l0RJ5VLj014051 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l0RJ9iTE018703 X-Archives-Salt: 34881407-bd25-43ac-8009-cf3bbb6281e1 X-Archives-Hash: dc823bfa75cf9ddc2f3ce1359ecf50c7 On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, J=FCrgen Geuter wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > > > One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not > > default to /tmp? > >=20 >Many people have an extra partition > for /tmp that is mounted noexec to give people less opportunity to mess > around with the system (for example build weird binaries for local root > exploits). > > Apart from that it's often useful to have all ebuild-related stuff in > one place I would add that since /tmp is often cleaned on boot-up, /var/tmp is=20 considered a "less temporary" place than /tmp. For example, if you hose=20 your /opt/foo directory, then assuming you have an appropriate version=20 of /foo in /var/tmp/portage, when you re-emerge "foo" it will skip steps = that=20 don't need to be done again (because they have already been completed an= d=20 left results in /var/tmp/portage). Jeff Rollin --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list