Handbook Talk:AMD64/Portage/Variables
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"Portage configuration" section
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Portage is configurable through variables in /etc/portage/make.conf or one of the subdirectories of /etc/portage/. Please refer to the man pages for
Portage is configurable through variables in /etc/portage/make.conf or one of the subdirectories of /etc/portage/. Please refer to the man pages for
make.conf and portage for more information:"Build-specific options" section
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Passed to the make command and usually set to define the amount of parallelism used during the compilation. Information about options for make can be found in the make(1) man page.
Passed to the make command and usually set to define the amount of parallelism used during the compilation. Information about options for make can be found in the make(1) man page.
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The USE variable is also used during configure and compilation; refer to previous chapters of this Handbook for details.
The USE variable is also used during configure and compilation; refer to previous chapters of this Handbook for details.
"Merge options" section
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Some useful options include
Some useful options include
--ask, --verbose, and --tree."Configuration file protection" section
"Portage protected locations" section
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the user is warned about the presence of a newer version of the (proposed) configuration file.
the user is warned about the presence of a newer version of the (proposed) configuration file.
"Excluding directories" section
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To 'unprotect' certain subdirectories of protected locations, use the CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK variable.
To 'unprotect' certain subdirectories of protected locations, use the CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK variable.
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the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge man page:
the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge man page:
"Download options" section
"Server locations" section
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The GENTOO_MIRRORS, sync-type, and sync-uri variables can be set automatically through the mirrorselect application, provided by the app-portage/mirrorselect package. For more information, refer to mirrorselect's online help:
The GENTOO_MIRRORS, sync-type, and sync-uri variables can be set automatically through the mirrorselect application, provided by the app-portage/mirrorselect package. For more information, refer to mirrorselect's online help:
"Fetch commands" section
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it uses wget(1) by default.
it uses wget(1) by default.
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It uses wget(1) by default, but ...
It uses wget(1) by default, but ...
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Inside the variables the URI and DISTDIR variables can be used to point to the source code location and distfiles location, respectively.
Inside the variables the URI and DISTDIR variables can be used to point to the source code location and distfiles location, respectively.
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to set some variables related to the rsync command:
to set some variables related to the rsync command:
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For more information on these options and others, please refer to the rsync(1) man page.
For more information on these options and others, please refer to the rsync(1) man page.
"Gentoo configuration" section
"Portage features" section
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It is possible to activate certain Portage features ...
It is possible to activate certain Portage features ...
"Portage behaviour" section
"Resource management" section
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refer to the Portage niceness page and the nice(1) man page:
refer to the Portage niceness page and the nice(1) man page:
"Output behaviour" section
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The NOCOLOR variable, which defaults to false, determines whether Portage should disable the use of colored output.
The NOCOLOR variable, which defaults to false, determines whether Portage should disable the use of colored output.
- Thanks! Added in Special:Diff/1272584/1316753.
- --csfore (talk) 17:13, 19 October 2024 (UTC)