On Friday 24 November 2006 12:48, Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files > under /etc/portage: > > # ls -lsa > total 36 > [...] > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 nov 20 22:42 bin > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d > 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 4096 oct 27 2004 sets > > I'm comparing them with same dir in my work pc and those files/dires > are not present... The sync difference between them is about a > week... > > Anyone could explain me what are this files for?
It would appear that portage put them there, on my system they were probably created around Aug 21. What the files do is: - bin contains a script called post-sync - it looks for a directory called postsync.d and if it finds executables there, it executes them all. - Currently the only script there is q-reinitialize, which runs q -r - Running q shows: -r, --reinitialize * Reinitialize ebuild cache So, without even having to look into the portage source, I can predict that this gets run after emerge --sync and it's purpose it to easily automate things like reinitializing the ebuild cache without having to hard code it into portage Strangely enough, no package claims ownership of these files: nazgul portage # equery belongs /etc/portage/bin/post_sync [ Searching for file(s) /etc/portage/bin/post_sync in *... ] nazgul portage # alan -- [email protected] mailing list
