On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Marc Espie wrote: > > > Historically, I did leave LOCKDIR empty in bsd.port.mk. > > Now, I'm wondering if I should define it to something such as > > /tmp/portslocks ? > > > > My assumption was that it would be difficult to be certain that dotlocks > > could > > be created anywhere. But it seems that most machines have local /tmp/ these > > days. And anyways, those that don't could define > > LOCKDIR = > > to remove the locking mechanism anyways... > > For what it's worth, I'm all for it being defined by default. > /tmp seems sensible if daily(8) does not interfere.
I think organizing it in a subdirectory runs risk of less interferences with other stuff, for what it's worth. (and yep, your comments prompted this)
