On Tuesday 06 March 2007 20:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:35:38 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > However, slocate does not pick up the /var/tmp/portage/dll.conf file -
> > why is that?
>
> Probably because you have /var/tmp in PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf.
> This is as it should be, there's no point in wasting time indexing
> temporary directories.

Yes, that was it.

I've also noticed that although the typical directory ownership 
in /var/tmp/portage is portage:portage, there are some dirs which have 
root:portage; e.g.:
=============================================
[snip...]
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Mar 20  2006 glib-2.8.5
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Jun 22  2006 glibc-2.3.6-r3
drwxrwxr-x   7 root    portage  208 Sep  6 09:49 gmp-4.2.1
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Mar 17  2006 gnuconfig-20051223
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Mar 11  2006 gnupg-1.4.2.1
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Apr 26  2006 gpg-agent-1.9.19
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Oct 25  2005 graphviz-1.16
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Aug 16  2005 grep-2.5.1-r7
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Jan 22  2006 gst-plugins-0.8.10
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Jan 22  2006 gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10
drwxrwxr-x   6 root    portage  208 Nov  2 14:18 gst-plugins-dvdnav-0.8.11
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Jan 25  2006 gst-plugins-flac-0.8.10
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage   72 Jan 26  2006 gst-plugins-mad-0.8.10
[snip...]
=============================================

Should these be so?  BTW, my make.conf has userpriv in it.  Would it be 
relevant?
-- 
Regards,
Mick