On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > I noticed that recent versions of portage 2.1.9 create an ._unmerge_ > directory in /var/tmp/portage. What is it used for?
Looks like this is the new PKG_TMPDIR. I think this is patch that made the change, with explanation: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commitdiff;h=83e677766650e73071813c0d46547647e5f66029 "Before, some temporary directories would be created directly in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Now, all are subdirectories of $PORTAGE_TMPDIR/portage since it's common for people to assume that this is the case anyway. With the default PORTAGE_TMPDIR setting of /var/tmp, this allows /var/tmp to be mounted with the "noexec" option, as long as the /var/tmp/portage subdirectory is a separate mount (people have already tended to assume that they can do this, so we're making it a reality in order to avoid any more bug reports). This will fix bug #346899."
