Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/notmpfs - does not exist

On 09/04/2015 11:52 PM, Dale wrote:
> thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>> When I try to run emerge on my system I get:
>>
>> ...
>>  * Your boot partition was not mounted at /boot, so it will be automounted for you.
>>  * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly.
>>>>> Running pre-merge checks for dev-db/mysql-5.6.26
>>>>> Running pre-merge checks for net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.9-r200
>>>>> Running pre-merge checks for mail-client/thunderbird-38.2.0
>> The directory specified in your PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable, '/var/tmp/notmpfs',
>> does not exist.  Please create this directory or correct your PORTAGE_TMPDIR setting.
>>
>> my fstab:
>> ...
>> proc 			/proc 		proc 		defaults 	0 0
>> shm 			/dev/shm  	tmpfs 		defaults,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0
>> tmpfs 		/var/tmp/portage 	tmpfs	 	defaults      0 0
>>
>>
>> ll /var/tmp/
>> total 0
>> drwxrwxrwt 4 portage portage 80 Sep  4 23:04 portage
>>
>> Do I need to create dir: /var/tmp/notmpfs ?
>> My other systems did not show any such message.
>>
>
>
> Are you trying to have portage's work directory on tmpfs?  If so, I have
> this in fstab:
>
> tmpfs                   /var/tmp/portage tmpfs          noatime	  	0 0
>
> I don't have anything in fstab for PORTAGE_TMPDIR tho.  According to
> this, you do need to create the directory if you are making exceptions.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs#Per-Package_Choices_at_Compile_Time
>
> |root #||mkdir /var/tmp/notmpfs |
> |root #||chown portage:portage /var/tmp/notmpfs |
> |root #||chmod 775 /var/tmp/notmpfs
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale

I had this configuration already set:
/etc/portage/env/notmpfs.conf
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/notmpfs"

/etc/portage/package.env
mail-client/thunderbird notmpfs.conf
www-client/firefox notmpfs.conf

What was missing was only directory:
/var/tmp/notmpfs

I'll remove "tmpfs" from fstab


Thelma.