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On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:35:47 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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> > That's exactly what it is for. One-off files that the ebuild |
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> > downloads, uses and then no longer needs. Nothing in $DISTDIR is |
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> > needed by a running system. |
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> Ok so anything needed for a build of a particular package goes into |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles? |
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anything that needs to be downloaded, yes. |
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> I thought ebuilds use /var/tmp/portage for that. |
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No. PORTAGE_TMPDIR is the temporary directory use for building the |
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software to install. |
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> If in needs to hang around longer (than a /tmp file typically |
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> hangs out for, when not put it under the another logical place. |
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$DISTDIR is the logical place. It is where portage puts the files that |
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projects use the distribute their work, hence the name. |
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> Like I said I thought /distfiles/ contains compressed sources |
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> and other file needed, all rolled into a common format, like*.bz2. |
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It contains source files in whatever format they are supplied, which may |
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or may not be compressed (think ebuilds that download from a VCS). source |
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in this case means the source of the software, not necessarily source |
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code as some ebuilds are for binary distributions. |
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> It we start (continue) strowing files into /distfiles/ where does it |
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> end? |
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With a full hard drive, unless you maintain it, this is Gento after all. |
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But other distros do a similar thing, Debian downloads all the .deb. |
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files for an operation before it starts installing them, and keeps them |
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in a cache. |
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I really don't see the problem here. Portage has to download files, it |
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has to save them somewhere, and we users may want to keep them for later |
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re-use. Portage does all of that in a sane manner. The only thing that |
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stops you from seeing this is the invalid assumption that $DISTDIR is |
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only for compressed tarballs of source code. man make.conf describes what |
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$DISTDIR, $PORTAGE_TMPDIR etc. are for, you cannot redefine that on a |
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whim and then say portage is doing it wrong. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is |
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half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. |
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