Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

["Vlad Dogaru" <ddvlad@gmail.com>]

On 1/27/07, Jeffrey Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, Jürgen Geuter wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> >
> > > One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not
> > > default to /tmp?
> >
> >
> >Many people have an extra partition
> > for /tmp that is mounted noexec to give people less opportunity to mess
> > around with the system (for example build weird binaries for local root
> > exploits).
> >
> > Apart from that it's often useful to have all ebuild-related stuff in
> > one place
>
> I would add that since /tmp is often cleaned on boot-up, /var/tmp is
> considered a "less temporary" place than /tmp. For example, if you hose
> your /opt/foo directory, then assuming you have an appropriate version
> of /foo in /var/tmp/portage, when you re-emerge "foo" it will skip steps that
> don't need to be done  again (because they have already been completed and
> left results in /var/tmp/portage).

Thanks to everyone for all your help and for the clarification.

Have a nice day,
Vlad

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