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On 1/27/07, Jeffrey Rollin <jeff.rollin@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, Jürgen Geuter wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: |
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> > > One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not |
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> > > default to /tmp? |
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> >Many people have an extra partition |
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> > for /tmp that is mounted noexec to give people less opportunity to mess |
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> > around with the system (for example build weird binaries for local root |
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> > exploits). |
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> > Apart from that it's often useful to have all ebuild-related stuff in |
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> > one place |
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> I would add that since /tmp is often cleaned on boot-up, /var/tmp is |
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> considered a "less temporary" place than /tmp. For example, if you hose |
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> your /opt/foo directory, then assuming you have an appropriate version |
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> of /foo in /var/tmp/portage, when you re-emerge "foo" it will skip steps that |
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> don't need to be done again (because they have already been completed and |
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> left results in /var/tmp/portage). |
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Thanks to everyone for all your help and for the clarification. |
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Have a nice day, |
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Vlad |
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