On Tuesday 01 July 2003 11:26 pm, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
> How about, for each package, make a directory
> say ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/${P}/sources
> and fill it with symlinks to the actual location of each item.
> Then change DESTDIR to that directory for the remainder of the ebuild
> run.
>
Interesting idea...> In UNIX, ':' is used as a convention for a path element seperator for > the simple reason it is easier in general to parse, and can also > allow the entire string to remain a single argument without needing > extra quoting. That makes sense... > > I haven't dug further to see where new stuff is downloaded to, but > how about just making it the last or first directory in the list. Basically, my thought is that resuming, fetching are only valid in DESTDIR. I purposely dis-allowed resuming in DESTDIRS. Kurt -- There is no good nor evil; there is only power. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
