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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:37:21
Message-Id: 200512050926.46271.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage by "Alan E. Davis"
1 Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 09:09 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis:
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3 > I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed
4 > to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then
5 > burn them to a CD and carry them home.
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7 Bad Idea. "emerge sync" will delete everything from the local portage tree
8 that is not part of the official portage tree (the only exception
9 is /usr/portage/distfiles).
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11 > However, on Monday I arrived to find that while "locate downloads" found
12 > this directory, it isn't there anymore!
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14 locate doesn't search your disk, it has its own database, which need to be
15 updated frequently (normally done via cron).
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17 HTH...
18
19 Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>