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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. |
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>> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. |
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> eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit |
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>> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink |
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>> /var/ftp/distfiles to it. |
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>> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere? |
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> Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location |
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> But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and |
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> it's in your home directory owned by you. |
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> Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to |
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> distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way. |
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>> I should do both solution. |
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>> thank you |
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>> Laurent |
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I think he is running our of disk space and trying to move it to a |
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partition that has more space. He didn't say that but I think that is |
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the issue at hand. |
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I do suspect that this could cause . . . . issues in the long run. |
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Permissions is a good one to mention. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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