Bug 65492

Summary:	document CCACHE_DIR in make.conf manpage
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	rockoo
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	115839
Attachments:	Add's a ditty about CCACHE DIR and what it defaults to ( in stable anyway )

Description Robin Johnson archtester

2004-09-26 21:27:20 UTC

I've been working on a machine with slow disk (sucky IDE controller actually), but lots of RAM (4GB), and it's been immensely useful to have my portage tmpdir in tmpfs. However then when I reboot, everything in my ccache goes away, as it's in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR/homedir.

In that vain, could we have a slight re-arrangement of portage's directories?
I'd be perfectly happy if one could configure them in make.conf.

portage.py, line 2157:
mysettings["BUILD_PREFIX"] = mysettings["PORTAGE_TMPDIR"]+"/portage/build"
mysettings["HOME"]         = mysettings["PORTAGE_TMPDIR"]+"/portage-homedir"
mysettings["PKG_TMPDIR"]   = mysettings["PORTAGE_TMPDIR"]+"/portage/pkg"

This allows me to mount my tmpfs on $PORTAGE_TMPDIR and have some reasonable speed.

I'll do up a full patch to implement this if needed.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-26 22:07:34 UTC

CCACHE_DIR doesn't work anymore ?

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2004-09-26 22:50:23 UTC

the comments in make.conf and source I see say that ccache should be in /var/tmp/ccache (or /root/.ccache), but it's still going to /var/tmp/portage/homedir/.ccache as I don't have CCACHE_DIR explictly set.

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-27 00:05:08 UTC

so it's a docs bugs

Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 16:19:53 UTC

userpriv

Comment 5 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-08-09 17:00:23 UTC

Created attachment 65564 [details, diff]
Add's a ditty about CCACHE DIR and what it defaults to ( in stable anyway )

From what I can gather it is set to PORTAGE_TMPDIR/ccache in both userpriv and
normal mode ( although the permissions change between them ).

Comment 6 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2006-01-06 21:44:12 UTC

Hopefully can go into 2.0.54

Comment 7 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-20 06:16:55 UTC

Removing blocker as this is not a regression nor been fixed in trunk yet (hence is not a candidate for going into stable).

Comment 8 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-01-23 19:09:39 UTC

added to trunk

Comment 9 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-27 19:25:41 UTC

Released in 2.1_pre4