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From: skaar <skaar@×××.net>
To: Timothy Robinson <tdrobinson@××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 19:57:46
Message-Id: 20021207200129.GR6113@aol.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal by Timothy Robinson
1 * Timothy Robinson (tdrobinson@××××.org) [021207 13:44]:
2 > I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script.
3 > I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has
4 > more
5
6 or you could set DISTDIR/PKGDIR in make.conf
7
8 /skaar
9
10 > space than the root filesystem. Everytime I do an emerge sync, it
11 > overwrites
12 > this and creates a directory. A simple change to the rsync exclude
13 > statements
14 > would fix this problem. Have a look.
15 >
16 > This:
17 >
18 > mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete
19 > --delete-after --exclude='distfiles/*' --exclude='packages/*' "
20 >
21 > would be changed to this:
22 >
23 > mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete
24 > --delete-after --exclude='/distfiles/' --exclude='/packages/' "
25 >
26 > Thanks for the consideration,
27 > Timothy Robinson
28 >
29 >
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