On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:59:27 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > In a desperate act to satisfy the ever increasing build space > requirements for firefox and its kin, I'd symlinked /var/tmp/portage to > a subdirectory of /usr/portage. And webrsync does "rsync ... --delete > ...", so now you see where this is going. > > Fortunately, as you say, the recovery was easy once I knew what went > wrong. > > > You might consider moving the sync location out of /usr while you're > > at it. Also, if you haven't already done so get > > /usr/portage/distfiles outside of the repo directory. For new > > installs both of these are moved to /var in non-nested directories, > > but existing installs will continue to use their present locations. > > But I already have a bunch of symlinks to juggle the space requirements > and I would rather not revisit that, right now. On my system /var is in > the / filesystem and doesn't have that much space (less than the 8G > necessary to build firefox). At some future spring cleaning time, > maybe.
There's no need for any symlinks, just set $PORTAGE_TMPDIR globally then separate for greedy packages. For example, in make.conf I have PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" Then /etc/portage/package.env/firefox contains www-client/firefox disk-tmpdir.conf and /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf contains PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" So I get faster tmpfs based builds for most packages and use a disposable disk partition for the greedy ones. -- Neil Bothwick And if you say "No", I shall be forced to shoot you.
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