Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

gevisz wrote:
>
> You probably will be surprised, but the main reason I am trying to use
> tmpfs for /var/tmp/ is not because I want to make emerging chromium
> faster (I have no hope about that because read somewhere that it will
> make compilation only 10 percent faster) but because I have not too
> much free space on / (sometimes in the past chromium refused to build
> in the similar conditions) and because of that either have to move /var/tmp
> to the separate partition anyway or try to use tmpfs + swap and, if it fails,
> to move to the separate partition only /var/tmp/portage/notmpfs
>


I think you can tell emerge/portage to build that specific program on
another disk.  You just have to tell it where, sort of the same way you
tell it to build on disk instead of tmpfs.  I've never done it but it
should work the same way.  Just make sure the permissions are right. 

My thinking.  Let's say you have chromium that won't fit on the usual
disk.  Tell emerge/portage to build chromium in another directory that
is on another disk. 

/etc/portage/env/largedisk.conf
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/largedisk"

/etc/portage/package.env/package.env
www-client/chromium  ../env/largedisk.conf

Once you have those files set up to work, then make sure you have your
large disk mounted at /var/tmp/largedisk and I would think it would
work.  Anytime you emerge chromium, it should do that in
/var/tmp/largedisk.  Only question is, do you have another disk to try
this on??? 

Anyone think that wouldn't work???  Basically, you are just telling
emerge/portage to build somewhere else and it shouldn't care where that
is, tmpfs or disk.  Right?

Dale

:-)  :-)