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On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. |
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> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. |
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eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit |
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> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink |
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> /var/ftp/distfiles to it. |
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> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere? |
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Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location |
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But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and |
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it's in your home directory owned by you. |
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Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to |
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distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way. |
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> I should do both solution. |
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> thank you |
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> Laurent |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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