On Saturday, 27 February 2021 08:34:02 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:47:04 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The ebuild and what looks like additional metadata files are in the > > /var/db/pkg directory tree. But the source files aren't in the tree. > > At least not for the example package I looked at. > > That's right, the source files are in $DISTDIR, unless you have cleaned > it. /var/db/pkg contains all the information portage needs about the > installed software.
$ emerge --info | grep DISTDIR will show if the source files directory is in the old /usr/portage/distfiles, or the new default of /var/cache/distfiles, or some custom location the user has specified in /etc/portage/make.conf.
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