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Peter Humphrey posted <43995F81.8070306@××××××××××.uk>, excerpted below, |
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on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:42:09 +0000: |
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> Oh, and don't put the tarball in /usr/portage/distfiles/ or it'll be erased |
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> at the next emerge --sync! |
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As the default location for downloaded source tarballs, distfiles isn't |
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synced, so anything there should be safe from an emerge sync. |
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What it likely /won't/ be safe from is any distfiles cleaner you may run. |
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The newer (~arch) gentoolkit includes eclean, one such cleaner, altho lack |
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of one in the normal portage and gentoolkit for so long means there's |
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a list of several others available on the forums, and mentioned on the |
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user list from time to time. However, if you don't run any of those, it |
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will probably be safe, and eclean anyway, is configurable to skip things |
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you don't want it to touch. (Of course, just putting the file elsewhere |
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means you don't have to worry about it.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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