Am Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:58:35 +0000 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:12:01 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in >> > make.conf. Job done! >> >> Acting on the advice of various Gentoo guides, I have this: >> >> # grep tmp /etc/fstab tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs >> noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0 tmpfs /tmp >> tmpfs noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0 >> >> Are you saying I don't gain anything from it? > > I can't see any benefit from the added complexity. If you want portage > to use a tmpfs for its temporary directory, why not use one that is > already there?
The point here is having /tmp as noexec. That's not exactly what I'd call added complexity. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
