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| author |   Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> | 2004-09-26 10:44:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> | 2004-09-26 10:44:31 +0000 |
| commit | dd488f063f0055b16dd9ada47ba404e780ee434d (patch) | |
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| parent | The tarball script is very nice to me. Because of using tabs in python, I ten... (diff) | |
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Lockfile updates to handle NFS and hardlinks better. Made 'distlocks' a feature that is enabled by default. _rc4portage_2_0_51_rc4
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index f50cb99..452e933 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ Autogenerate a digest for packages. .B distcc Enable portage support for the distcc package. .TP +.B distlocks +Portage uses lockfiles to ensure competing instances don't clobber +each other's files. This feature is enabled by default but may cause +heartache on less intelligent remote filesystems like NFSv2 and some +strangely configured Samba server (oplocks off, NFS re-export). A tool +/usr/lib/portage/bin/clean_locks exists to help handle lock issues +when a problem arises (normally due to a crash or disconnect). +.TP .B fixpackages Runs the script that will fix the dependencies in all binary packages. This is run whenever packages are moved around in the portage tree. Please note that this @@ -375,4 +383,4 @@ Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> .br Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> .SH "CVS HEADER" -$Header: /local/data/ulm/cvs/history/var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/man/make.conf.5,v 1.41 2004/09/19 23:57:18 vapier Exp $ +$Header: /local/data/ulm/cvs/history/var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/man/make.conf.5,v 1.42 2004/09/26 10:44:31 carpaski Exp $ |