Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 09:09 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis: > I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed > to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then > burn them to a CD and carry them home.
Bad Idea. "emerge sync" will delete everything from the local portage tree
that is not part of the official portage tree (the only exception
is /usr/portage/distfiles).
> However, on Monday I arrived to find that while "locate downloads" found
> this directory, it isn't there anymore!
locate doesn't search your disk, it has its own database, which need to be
updated frequently (normally done via cron).
HTH...
Dirk
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