Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread n952162
On 2/25/25 09:35, Matt Jolly wrote: Hi, That's an option.  It means I'd have to dedicate an entire volume to that, but it's doable. A bind mount will not require this. > Bind mount operation >   Remount part of the file hierarchy somewhere else. The call is: >  mount --bind olddir newdir

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 25.02.2025 10:05, n952162 a scris: I just successfully updated world.  In order to make room in my root, I subsequently moved /var/tmp/portage to a mounted usb stick and symlinked it to /var/tmp. You don't need to use symlinks, you can simply set PORTAGE_TMPDIR in your make.conf. Whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread n952162
That's an option.  It means I'd have to dedicate an entire volume to that, but it's doable. But if the unpack phase insists on doing a "mkdir /var/tmp/portage", would that work with a mounted drive? In fact, it's hard for me to image that the unpack phase would fail on that, it's just a first gu

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 25/2/25 18:05, n952162 wrote: In order to make room in my root, I subsequently moved /var/tmp/portage to a mounted usb stick and symlinked it to /var/tmp. Have you tried mounting (or bind mounting) to /var/tmp/portage instead of symlinking? Regards, Matt