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| author | Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> | 2012-08-19 14:33:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2012-08-19 14:33:44 -0700 |
| commit | fab71caabba4e57ffcbed0651abcee014d1c960f (patch) | |
| tree | ef603a44b4f0a4f8a891afd9563a648c0d045982 /man | |
| parent | 604eb9bd43ec035c4e26197ab21cba33b4faa8f9 (diff) | |
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make.conf.5: warn about PORTAGE_TMPDIR in PORTDIR
This will fix bug #392565.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 02cc8098d..c617fbcfe 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -827,6 +827,9 @@ Defaults to 30. Defines the location of the temporary build directories. .br Defaults to /var/tmp. + +This should not be set to point anywhere under the directory tree +specified by \fBPORTDIR\fR (/usr/portage by default). .TP \fBPORTAGE_USERNAME\fR = \fI[user]\fR Defines the username to use when executing in userpriv/etc... modes (i.e. @@ -852,7 +855,7 @@ the emerge \-\-sync command. The default value of \fBDISTDIR\fR and \fBPKGDIR\fR, but users are warned that any other locations 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. +directory structures and may arbitrarily 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 |