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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-19 03:15:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-19 03:15:33 +0000 |
| commit | 742700cc323521cfe19ba3037d63669c21a17fb9 (patch) | |
| tree | cade1bda8895c835f6472095c4f5aedcd8142b34 | |
| parent | a50e6a22a84f0386489b63e1670974d3f51438cc (diff) | |
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Bug #245779 - Document the new category subdirectory behavior for PKGDIR.
(trunk r11997)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=11998
| -rw-r--r-- | man/ebuild.1 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 8 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/ebuild.1 b/man/ebuild.1 index 4baff2620..b4d4fd127 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.1 +++ b/man/ebuild.1 @@ -161,9 +161,7 @@ or other similar setups that the user may wish to run. .BR package This command is a lot like the \fImerge\fR command, except that after fetching, unpacking, compiling and installing, a .tbz2 binary package -tarball is created and stored in ${PKGDIR}/All (${PKGDIR} defaults to -/usr/portage/packages). A symbolic link is created in -${PKGDIR}/${CATEGORY} that points to the package in ${PKGDIR}/All. +tarball is created and stored in \fBPKGDIR\fR (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). .TP .BR rpm Builds a RedHat RPM package from the files in the temporary diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 6209832e7..738f160f9 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ Tells emerge to build binary packages for all ebuilds processed in addition to actually merging the packages. Useful for maintainers or if you administrate multiple Gentoo Linux systems (build once, emerge tbz2s everywhere) as well as disaster recovery. The package -will be created in the -\fI${PKGDIR}/All\fR directory. An alternative for already\-merged +will be created in the \fBPKGDIR\fR directory (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). +An alternative for already\-merged packages is to use \fBquickpkg\fR(1) which creates a tbz2 from the live filesystem. .TP diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index a36fc4ff3..4913747e4 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -401,7 +401,13 @@ Defines if color should be disabled by default. Defaults to false. .TP \fBPKGDIR\fR = \fI[path]\fR -Defines the location where created .tbz2 binary packages will be stored. Note +Defines the location where created .tbz2 binary packages will be +stored when the \fBemerge\fR(1) \fB\-\-buildpkg\fR option is enabled. +By default, a given package is stored in a subdirectory corresponding +to it's category. However, for backward compatibility with the layout +used by older versions of portage, if the \fI${PKGDIR}/All\fR directory +exists then all packages will be stored inside of it and symlinks to +the packages will be created in the category subdirectories. Note that locations under /usr/portage are not necessarily safe for data storage. See the \fBPORTDIR\fR documentation for more information. .br |