On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:40, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not > default to /tmp?
The real nature of /tmp isn't adequate for portage, that's why it uses a different one. If memory serves, the FHS defines /tmp as a temporary place to store files, and the continued existence of the file after a process has finished is not guaranteed. In other words, if there are no existing locks on a file, it's up for summary deletion. This could be fatal in a big compile - imagine if some cleaner process nuked a binary compiled 4 hours ago in an openoffice compile.... But the best reason is that some compiles are HUGE. Openoffice can take up all of 5G with everything enabled, and as /tmp is often a tmpfs, it's highly unlikely most users will have enough space on /tmp to emerge it. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
