-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 28/03/12 03:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Christoph Mende > <ange...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> I believe it's /var/lib/<name>. Here's what FHS says: /var/cache >> is intended for cached data from applications. Such data is >> locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or >> calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or >> restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be >> deleted without data loss. >> > > I can do rm -rf /usr/portage ; mkdir /usr/portage ; emerge --sync > and it will work just fine, I think.
It does, i tried it yesterday. > > That really does point to cache. The only thing different from a > browser cache is that portage doesn't automatically refresh it. > Although, we could always make emerge do an automatic --sync if, say, /path/to/portage/profiles doesn't exist. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk9zbCwACgkQAJxUfCtlWe2abgEAl8eapp2DQOYJx6RAcl6Ei/iN 9L4e7tG9maNTryI6lKMBAOEqAdgWrKWx2UJ3+g7oBNFc5G7Lu+yk3deZZFN4zBjU =sluw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
