On 02/14/2015 02:38 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:26:33 +0100 (CET), Jan Sever wrote: >>>> I was looking for information about the source for checksums of >>>> installed files but I didn't find. I'd like to know whether Portage >>>> makes checksums (for equery check) from installed files in /, or >>>> in /var/tmp/portage. And similarly whether it makes binary packages >>>> (when asked) from /, or again from /var/tmp/portage. It'd make sense, >>>> it'd make it from /var/tmp/portage but I'm not sure of that. >>> >>> It makes the packages from $PORTAGE_TMPDIR and then installs from that >>> package, when using buildpkg. Quickpkg builds fro the installed >>> files. >> >> Thanks for your very quick answer. And the checksums? > > There's a good reason I didn't answer that part of the question...
Good reason? I don't understand. When I looked into ebuild(1), I found "the installed files' checksums are recorded" which can be explained both ways but checksums from $PORTAGE_TMPDIR is more likely. -- Jan Sever
