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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-05-11 19:21:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-05-11 19:21:28 +0000 |
| commit | b91e2fbb839c50b9be88fe0944952d485f8d43b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8155b13409afb6946e61094c8ac32a4a80910fe6 | |
| parent | 6332b1cc1a1d8122a598c2173f78cad01808b0de (diff) | |
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Bug #220111 - Update the DISTDIR docs to clarify that it's safe to remove
any and all files from this location after packages are built.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=10289
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index d5f316709..2a1763733 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -98,7 +98,11 @@ This variable is passed by the \fIebuild scripts\fR to the \fIconfigure\fR as \fI\-\-target=${CTARGET}\fR only if it is defined. .TP \fBDISTDIR\fR = \fI[path]\fR -Defines the location of your local source file repository. Note +Defines the location of your local source file repository. After packages +are built, it is safe to remove any and all files from this directory since +they will be automatically fetched on demand for a given build. If you would +like to selectively prune obsolete files from this directory, see +\fBeclean\fR(1) from the gentoolkit package. Note that locations under /usr/portage are not necessarily safe for data storage. See the \fBPORTDIR\fR documentation for more information. .br |