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 1LmSJC-000621-1e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:34:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F6CCE05C8; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:34:07 +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 C386DE05C8 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12039 invoked by uid 503); 25 Mar 2009 12:34:06 -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 12:34:06 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:34:03 -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 12:34:01 -0000 Message-ID: <49CA24B6.3030909@logiquefloue.org> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +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> <49CA1D96.9060207@logiquefloue.org> <200903251422.09530.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903251422.09530.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 2646146257068196440 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: 982333eb-d9e8-4de1-a489-3d846bb4a459 X-Archives-Hash: 42bee3abe59f358601e611df3403d37b Alan McKinnon a =E9crit : > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote: > =20 >>> 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. >>> =20 >>> =20 >> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 mar 24 20:19 home >> >> looks owned by root. >> =20 > > /home is not your home directory. > > Out of the box emerge runs as the portage user, which will not have wri= te=20 > permission to your home directory unless you modify the ownership/permi= ssions. > > But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you d= ecide=20 > to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? > > =20 Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout.=20 When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http=20 server with client website on it. The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how=20 to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on. Laurent