portage-2.1.2_pre1-r2 uses locking to access binary packages in PKGDIR. When using with "emerge -aK pkg" on a cluster, the binary install is extremely slow (serial). That also makes read-only PKGDIR unusable for binary distribution.
Created attachment 98006 [details, diff] disable tbz2 locks Okay, I guess we don't really need to lock them. :)
This has been released in 2.1.2_pre1-r3.
*** Bug 149387 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***