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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-01-31 07:55:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-01-31 07:55:17 +0000 |
| commit | 6b2bd7703e5416f33c5d62584d691252884b9382 (patch) | |
| tree | 4fd0462ce436ba220d9d604044a1e8e9e94df607 /man | |
| parent | 70e65f34ca274abb8a81005dc9674e3c9fac9037 (diff) | |
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Add a note that PORTDIR is a repository of software and that users
should not add random directories in it. (trunk r9209)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=9243
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 220d045d7..072f24e8e 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -440,7 +440,9 @@ Data stored inside \fBPORTDIR\fR is in peril of being overwritten or deleted by the emerge \-\-sync command. The default value of \fBPORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS\fR will protect the default locations of \fBDISTDIR\fR and \fBPKGDIR\fR, but users are warned that any other locations -inside \fBPORTDIR\fR are not necessarily safe for data storage. +inside \fBPORTDIR\fR are not necessarily safe for data storage. You should not +put other data (such as overlays) in your \fBPORTDIR\fB. Portage will walk +directory structures and may arbitrary add invalid categories as packages. .TP \fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR = \fI"[path] [different\-path] [etc...]"\fR Defines the directories in which user made ebuilds may be stored and not |