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On Monday 23 February 2004 19:08, Rick Altherr wrote: |
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> You can delete everything in /usr/portage/distfiles/. They're just the |
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> source tarballs. If something needs them, they'll just be redownloaded. |
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> Rick |
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> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:48, Donsbach, Jeff wrote: |
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> > Ok, this is probably a question for a "general" list, but here goes…. |
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> > The machine I've been installing Gentoo on is rather limited in disk |
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> > space. I've noticed that as I start installing things, the Portage |
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> > directory is growing rather quickly, thus filling up my / partition. |
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> > What's the best way from keeping the Portage tree from growing? Can |
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> > you limit the size of the "distfiles" directory somehow? That seems to |
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> > be the biggest. |
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> > Jeff Donsbach |
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> > Developer Resource Center T/(978) 506-5227 |
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> > HP Partner Technical Services jeff.donsbach@××.com |
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Or you could do it the way i did. |
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NFS mount the /usr/portage tree |
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But that ofcourse requires a NFS server with enough space :) |
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