From faac6ea62ba56883fdeb82a7da418735504a5cdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:14:48 +0000 Subject: Bug #245779 - Document the new category subdirectory behavior for PKGDIR. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11997 --- man/make.conf.5 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'man/make.conf.5') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22