On 1/27/07, Jeffrey Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, Jürgen Geuter wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
>
> > One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not
> > default to /tmp?
>
>
>Many people have an extra partition
> for /tmp that is mounted noexec to give people less opportunity to mess
> around with the system (for example build weird binaries for local root
> exploits).
>
> Apart from that it's often useful to have all ebuild-related stuff in
> one place
I would add that since /tmp is often cleaned on boot-up, /var/tmp is
considered a "less temporary" place than /tmp. For example, if you hose
your /opt/foo directory, then assuming you have an appropriate version
of /foo in /var/tmp/portage, when you re-emerge "foo" it will skip steps that
don't need to be done again (because they have already been completed and
left results in /var/tmp/portage).
Thanks to everyone for all your help and for the clarification.
Have a nice day,
Vlad
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