Re: What does the "WRKOBJDIR" variable do?

["Rakhesh Sasidharan" <rakheshster%gmail.com@localhost>]

> > If "/tmp/work" points to "/path/to/pkgsrc/editors/nano/work", then
> > what advantage do we have if "/tmp" is on tmpfs? I'd have assumed all
> > the actual work happens in "/path/to/pkgsrc/editors/nano/work" and so
> > "/tmp" shouldn't make any difference .... am I understanding something
> > wrong here? :-S
>
> It's the other way around; /path/to/pkgsrc/editors/nano/work is a
> symlink to /tmp/work/editors/nano/work, so none of the temporary build
> files ever hits my disk.

Ah ok. Then yup, it makes sense. :)

I am still not clear on what WRKDIR does. Is it possible to set that
to "/tmp/pkgsrc-wrk"? Will all the package "work" directories be
created at this new location then? Why aren't we playing with that
variable instead of WRKOBJDIR?

> (additionally, I have CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK=NO in /etc/mk.conf to make
> my pkgsrc dir completely read-only.)

But I thought if your pkgsrc is mounted read-only, then symlinks wont
be created in the first place. Or is it that your pkgsrc is mounted
read-write but you dont want symlinks to be created nevertheless, and
so u set this?

Thanks,
Rakhesh

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