On 2010/06/16 14:00, Marc Espie wrote: > 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. >
yep. I would be happy with that.
