should - not must have to survive. And nothing in /var/tmp/portage is important enough. So just let it get lost.
I would not put PORTAGE_TMPDIR to /tmp because if it accidentally fills up, you have a big problem. While a seperate tmpfs /var/tmp/portage... well nobody cares if it is full. Yeah, emerge fails but that's it. 2013/7/21 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:39:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs > > > > good, but also put /tmp on tmpfs. > > Doesn't the FHS spec say that /var/tmp should survive a reboot? So the > correct approach is to put /tmp on a tmpfs and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR > to /tmp. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Mosquito - designed to make houseflies look better. >
