Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent <laurent@logiquefloue.org>]

Alan McKinnon a écrit :
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
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>> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
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> eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit
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>> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
>> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
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>> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere?
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> Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location
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> But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and 
> it's in your home directory owned by you.
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drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  4096 mar 24 20:19 home

looks owned by root.
> Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to 
> distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way.
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>> I should do both solution.
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>> thank you
>> Laurent
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