On Mon, December 5, 2005 9:21 pm, Andres Becerra Sandoval said: > On 12/5/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> However, on Monday I arrived to find that while "locate downloads" found >> this directory, it isn't there anymore! >> >> Does portage do something to check the configuration of /usr/portage? I >> emerged a new portage last friday also. >> >> These are SATA drives on an amd64 system, running as ~amd64. >> >> perplexedly, >> >> Alan Davis >> > > > I guess its rsync, running from emerge sync who deleted your directory!
More than a guess, that is asolutely the case. If its not on the server's /usr/portage it'll be deleted. The exceptions are what is in /u/p/distfiles and /u/p/packages > > -- > Andres > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
