Bug 57867 – Patch: Adds commandline option --cache-dir to let the user choose a different cache location

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Parm 2004-07-21 08:56:56 UTC]

This patch adds commandline option --cache-dir to let the user choose a different cache location. This gives the user greater flexibility.

Possible situation that might want this patch :
1) Thu user wants to forcefully rebuild everything
2) /usr/share/genkernel might be read-only (e.g. on a diskless system)
3) The user want to switch between different versions of busybox, dietlib, etc. cached at different locations

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Martin Parm 2004-07-21 08:57:32 UTC]

Created attachment 35888 [details, diff]
Adds --cache-dir=

This patch was made on genkernel-3.0.2c

[Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2004-07-21 11:48:33 UTC]

Hrm; looking at the patch you've added it seems you've missed a hunk to define cache_replace.

[Comment 3 Martin Parm 2004-07-21 15:18:06 UTC]

Ups, sorry about that. I guess I was a little to quick with that one ;-)

[Comment 4 Martin Parm 2004-07-21 15:19:02 UTC]

Created attachment 35922 [details, diff]
Adds --cache-dir=

This patch was made with genkernel-3.0.2c

[Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2004-07-29 13:52:13 UTC]

I replaced --cache-dir with --cachedir since there's already --kerneldir=... and --tempdir=...

Sidenote: Sed accepts other delimeters such as ':' so you can do 's:/path/:path:' without needing to escape '/'.

[Comment 6 Martin Parm 2004-08-07 15:05:54 UTC]

Created attachment 36982 [details, diff]
Adds --cache-dir=

Updated patch that works with genkernel-3.0.2e
This patch also removes the debugline in cache_replace I forgot in the last
patch and it supports udev that was added in genkernel-3.0.2e.

[Comment 7 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2004-08-23 04:53:38 UTC]

Patch in 3.0.2f; please reopen this bug if you have any problems with it. Thanks!