Where to build
Duane Attaway
dattaway at dattaway.org
Sun Feb 9 18:49:02 CST 2003
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Is there a "good practices" standard place to put the contents of
> tarballs when one is preparing to do a make/install of a package? I
> generally do them off of the user's home directory, which doesn't seem
> likely.
Gentoo puts all the tarball builds in /usr/tmp/portage/ for a nice source
tree. And all the raw tarballs in /usr/portage/distfiles.
I used to have my tarballs cluttering up my home directory too.
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