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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Daiajo Tibdixious posted on Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:52:15 +1000 as excerpted: |
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>> I forgot about the dependent packages. I might forget about separating |
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>> system & world & just backup all the binpkg's |
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> FWIW, that's pretty much what I do here (but with all packages together, |
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> not separate @system/@world). I use FEATURES=binpkg and have a separate |
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> binpkgs partition, then a second partition of the same size that I mkfs |
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> and copy everything from the first one to, every so often. |
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> Binpkg partition size is now 8 gigs. 3 gigs works if you clean out all |
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> the old binpkgs regularly (eclean), and I ran 4 gigs for awhile, but I |
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> run the kde betas (as of yesterday, 4.8.80 aka 4.9-beta1) and like to |
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> keep plenty of room for the last upstream-stable I had (4.8.3) plus the |
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> last and current betas, and found 4 gig a bit tight for that, so when I |
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> upgraded disks, I doubled the size to 8 gigs, tho 6 probably would have |
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> done as well. |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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I got FEATURES=buildpkg already, and run eclean regularly, and |
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planning to back up to 8G USB drive, so should work. |
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I only have the 1 drive. My case doesn't have enough power plugs for |
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more than 1. :( |
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so no raid for me. (No rich enough for a better 1) |
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