On 5 September 2015 15:08:20 BST, [email protected] wrote: > On 09/04/2015 11:52 PM, Dale wrote: > > [email protected] 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 > > I had this configuration already set: > /etc/portage/env/notmpfs.conf > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/notmpfs" > > /etc/portage/package.env > mail-client/thunderbird notmpfs.conf > www-client/firefox notmpfs.conf > > What was missing was only directory: > /var/tmp/notmpfs > > I'll remove "tmpfs" from fstab > > > Thelma.
I see what you're trying to do, have large packages built without using tmpfs, but you need to point PORTAGE_TMPDIR to an existing directory on your hard disk. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
