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author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-19 03:14:48 +0000 |
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committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-19 03:14:48 +0000 |
commit | faac6ea62ba56883fdeb82a7da418735504a5cdd (patch) | |
tree | bd0d9f5bb9296133fd1e938277003b1478af67c4 /man/make.conf.5 | |
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Bug #245779 - Document the new category subdirectory behavior for PKGDIR.
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diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index a8f93ca1c..aa0875ed5 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 |