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On Tue, 20 May 2008 02:09:26 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: |
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> I was just wondering, while watching an emerge --sync, is it possible |
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> (or advisable) to limit what portage syncs? For example, I have a |
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> server here that doesn't use X, kde, gnome, java, and a number of other |
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> fairly large areas of portage. It would be nice if I could speed up |
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> syncing by excluding these categories from the process. |
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It is possible, by setting PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in make.conf to add |
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--exclude options to mask out the directories you don't want. As for |
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being advisable, it depends on whether you are prepared to risk and |
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breakage this may incur, but unless you do anything silly, you should be |
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able to fix any damage by undoing the change and syncing again. |
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