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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-07-01 17:10:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-07-01 17:10:04 +0000 |
| commit | 4c98aea0c2753d842e73f3b3f350ee40f638d02c (patch) | |
| tree | 8531e9849204e57e6cf0c644616f316f4e42dbdd /cnf | |
| parent | 890becf9732d9a0d3ecdc8be662c8453b731a4c7 (diff) | |
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For bug #131030, update the warning about potential for emerge --sync overwrite or delete files in ${PORTDIR}. Add references to the PKGDIR and DISTDIR docs. (trunk r7112)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=7113
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| -rw-r--r-- | cnf/make.conf | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cnf/make.conf b/cnf/make.conf index 87fcbef30..0a9fe8bd8 100644 --- a/cnf/make.conf +++ b/cnf/make.conf @@ -78,18 +78,28 @@ # PORTDIR is the location of the portage tree. This is the repository # for all profile information as well as all ebuilds. If you change # this, you must update your /etc/make.profile symlink accordingly. +# ***Warning*** +# Data stored inside PORTDIR is in peril of being overwritten or deleted by +# the emerge --sync command. The default value of PORTAGE_EXTRA_RSYNC_OPTS +# will protect the default locations of DISTDIR and PKGDIR, but users are +# warned that any other locations inside PORTDIR are not necessarily safe +# for data storage. #PORTDIR=/usr/portage # # DISTDIR is where all of the source code tarballs will be placed for # emerges. The source code is maintained here unless you delete # it. The entire repository of tarballs for Gentoo is 9G. This is # considerably more than any user will ever download. 2-3G is -# a large DISTDIR. +# a large DISTDIR. Note that locations under /usr/portage are not +# necessarily safe for data storage. See the PORTDIR documentation +# for more information. #DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles # # PKGDIR is the location of binary packages that you can have created # with '--buildpkg' or '-b' while emerging a package. This can get -# up to several hundred megs, or even a few gigs. +# up to several hundred megs, or even a few gigs. Note that +# locations under /usr/portage are not necessarily safe for data +# storage. See the PORTDIR documentation for more information. #PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages # # PORT_LOGDIR is the location where portage will store all the logs it |