thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> When I try to run emerge on my system I get:
>
> ...
>  * Your boot partition was not mounted at /boot, so it will be automounted for you.
>  * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly.
>>>> Running pre-merge checks for dev-db/mysql-5.6.26
>>>> Running pre-merge checks for net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.9-r200
>>>> Running pre-merge checks for mail-client/thunderbird-38.2.0
> The directory specified in your PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable, '/var/tmp/notmpfs',
> does not exist.  Please create this directory or correct your PORTAGE_TMPDIR setting.
>
> my fstab:
> ...
> proc 			/proc 		proc 		defaults 	0 0
> shm 			/dev/shm  	tmpfs 		defaults,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0
> tmpfs 		/var/tmp/portage 	tmpfs	 	defaults      0 0
>
>
> ll /var/tmp/
> total 0
> drwxrwxrwt 4 portage portage 80 Sep  4 23:04 portage
>
> Do I need to create dir: /var/tmp/notmpfs ?
> My other systems did not show any such message.
>


Are you trying to have portage's work directory on tmpfs?  If so, I have
this in fstab:

tmpfs                   /var/tmp/portage tmpfs          noatime	  	0 0

I don't have anything in fstab for PORTAGE_TMPDIR tho.  According to
this, you do need to create the directory if you are making exceptions.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs#Per-Package_Choices_at_Compile_Time

|root #||mkdir /var/tmp/notmpfs |
|root #||chown portage:portage /var/tmp/notmpfs |
|root #||chmod 775 /var/tmp/notmpfs

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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