Bug 375021 – [feature request] emerge PORTAGE_TMPDIR configuration

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description fkhp 2011-07-13 03:10:04 UTC]

to speed up emerge -eav system/world, use /dev/shm/tmp for default PORTAGE_TMPDIR, but it has not eanough space for huge packages such as gcc and openoffice, which will break the emerge process when it comes to one of the huge packages. so another direcotry on disk /var/tmp/portage should be set as PORTAGE_TMPDIR, so please set a configuration file  /etc/portage/package.tmpdir do the work:

/dev/shm/tmp */*
/var/tmp/portage sys-devel/gcc app-office/openoffice

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2011-07-13 03:43:14 UTC]

This can be done already via package.env, which allows you to override variables on a per-package basis. For example:

mkdir -p /etc/portage/env
echo PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp >> /etc/portage/env/tmpdir
echo sys-devel/gcc >> /etc/portage/package.env
echo app-office/openoffice >> /etc/portage/package.env

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2011-07-13 03:44:15 UTC]

The last two lines should be:

echo sys-devel/gcc tmpdir >> /etc/portage/package.env
echo app-office/openoffice tmpdir >> /etc/portage/package.env

[Comment 3 fkhp 2011-07-13 06:46:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The last two lines should be:
> 
> echo sys-devel/gcc tmpdir >> /etc/portage/package.env
> echo app-office/openoffice tmpdir >> /etc/portage/package.env

Great! thank you very much, I'll try it.