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On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote: |
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> > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or |
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> > portage and it's in your home directory owned by you. |
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> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 mar 24 20:19 home |
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> looks owned by root. |
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/home is not your home directory. |
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Out of the box emerge runs as the portage user, which will not have write |
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permission to your home directory unless you modify the ownership/permissions. |
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But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide |
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to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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