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authorMike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>2023-10-09 16:46:31 -0400
committerMike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>2023-10-09 16:46:31 -0400
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parentNEWS: fix typo (diff)
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man/make.conf.5: note locations with trust issues
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/915330 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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-rw-r--r--man/make.conf.514
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 25893c424..045882a17 100644
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ unless you know what you are doing.
\fBCCACHE_DIR\fR = \fI[path]\fR
Defines the location of the ccache working directory. See the \fBccache\fR(1)
man page for more information.
-.br
+
+Only trusted users should be granted write access to this location.
+
Defaults to /var/tmp/ccache
.TP
\fBCCACHE_SIZE\fR = \fI"size"\fR
@@ -282,6 +284,8 @@ they will be automatically fetched on demand for a given build. If you would
like to selectively prune obsolete files from this directory, see
\fBeclean\fR(1) from the gentoolkit package.
+Only trusted users should be granted write access to this location.
+
Use the \fBPORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS\fR variable to specify one or
more read-only directories containing distfiles.
.br
@@ -956,7 +960,9 @@ to its category. However, for backward compatibility with the layout
used by older versions of portage, if the \fI${PKGDIR}/All\fR directory
exists then all packages will be stored inside of it and symlinks to
the packages will be created in the category subdirectories.
-.br
+
+Only trusted users should be granted write access to this location.
+
Defaults to /var/cache/binpkgs.
.TP
.B PORT_LOGDIR
@@ -1205,7 +1211,9 @@ Defaults to 30.
.TP
\fBPORTAGE_TMPDIR\fR = \fI[path]\fR
Defines the location of the temporary build directories.
-.br
+
+Only trusted users should be granted write access to ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage.
+
Defaults to /var/tmp.
This should not be set to point anywhere under location of any repository.