On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:51:20PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2010/06/16 13:45, 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.
>
> 3 days is a bit short on some arch. /var/tmp gives you 7 days,
> but isn't cleared at boot...
>
daily could be set to ignore those... after all, it already ignores some other
stuff.
