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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dll.conf file in portage?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:22:30
Message-Id: 200703062210.58761.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dll.conf file in portage? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday 06 March 2007 20:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:35:38 +0000, Mick wrote:
3 > > However, slocate does not pick up the /var/tmp/portage/dll.conf file -
4 > > why is that?
5 >
6 > Probably because you have /var/tmp in PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf.
7 > This is as it should be, there's no point in wasting time indexing
8 > temporary directories.
9
10 Yes, that was it.
11
12 I've also noticed that although the typical directory ownership
13 in /var/tmp/portage is portage:portage, there are some dirs which have
14 root:portage; e.g.:
15 =============================================
16 [snip...]
17 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Mar 20 2006 glib-2.8.5
18 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jun 22 2006 glibc-2.3.6-r3
19 drwxrwxr-x 7 root portage 208 Sep 6 09:49 gmp-4.2.1
20 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Mar 17 2006 gnuconfig-20051223
21 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Mar 11 2006 gnupg-1.4.2.1
22 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Apr 26 2006 gpg-agent-1.9.19
23 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Oct 25 2005 graphviz-1.16
24 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Aug 16 2005 grep-2.5.1-r7
25 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jan 22 2006 gst-plugins-0.8.10
26 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jan 22 2006 gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10
27 drwxrwxr-x 6 root portage 208 Nov 2 14:18 gst-plugins-dvdnav-0.8.11
28 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jan 25 2006 gst-plugins-flac-0.8.10
29 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jan 26 2006 gst-plugins-mad-0.8.10
30 [snip...]
31 =============================================
32
33 Should these be so? BTW, my make.conf has userpriv in it. Would it be
34 relevant?
35 --
36 Regards,
37 Mick