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| author |   Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org> | 2019-08-21 17:40:10 -0400 |
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| committer |   Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2019-09-11 04:43:57 -0400 |
| commit | e31d6813d5f1cdd133726add02383c444a3f17ff (patch) | |
| tree | b6ab609793ee508037f4b9001ceab3b4cf473023 | |
| parent | OwnerSet: fix exclude-files support (bug 694000) (diff) | |
| download | portage-e31d6813.tar.gz portage-e31d6813.tar.bz2 portage-e31d6813.zip | |
make.conf: clarify distlocks usage
The current text makes it sound like distlocks control mutual access
in more scenarios than it actually does. Clarify that it only shows
up for distfiles & binpkgs.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 9dcd35b2c..71165bc53 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -399,9 +399,13 @@ Enable portage support for the distcc package with pump mode. .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 +each other's files. It covers saving distfiles to ${DISTDIR} and +binpkgs to ${PKGDIR}. + +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 +strangely configured Samba servers (oplocks off, NFS re\-export). + /usr/lib/portage/bin/clean_locks exists to help handle lock issues when a problem arises (normally due to a crash or disconnect). .TP |