From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmRph-0001sX-4i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:03:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FB03E0520; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 42.mail-out.ovh.net (42.mail-out.ovh.net [213.251.189.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E58E8E0520 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12370 invoked by uid 503); 25 Mar 2009 12:03:42 -0000 Received: from gw2.ovh.net (HELO mail242.ha.ovh.net) (213.251.189.202) by 42.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:03:42 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:03:39 -0000 Received: from a81-84-103-93.cpe.netcabo.pt (HELO ?192.168.0.102?) (laurent@logiquefloue.org@81.84.103.93) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:03:38 -0000 Message-ID: <49CA1D96.9060207@logiquefloue.org> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:03:34 +0100 From: laurent User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles References: <49C952AE.40904@logiquefloue.org> <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 2133017375023727192 X-Ovh-Remote: 81.84.103.93 (a81-84-103-93.cpe.netcabo.pt) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: db4a4049-8493-4feb-8603-91d102cb16d7 X-Archives-Hash: 4f6e9dea241044af7820ca6e686aa824 Alan McKinnon a =E9crit : > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: > =20 >> Hi, >> >> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. >> >> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. >> =20 > > eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit > > =20 >> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink >> /var/ftp/distfiles to it. >> >> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somew= here? >> =20 > > Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location > > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or port= age and=20 > it's in your home directory owned by you. > =20 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 poin= ts to=20 > distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way= . > > =20 >> I should do both solution. >> >> thank you >> Laurent >> =20 > > =20