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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: Burton Samograd <kruhft@×××××××××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:31:25
Message-Id: 1031869877.10660.8.camel@rattus.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories by Burton Samograd
1 The basic portage directory is ~200M in my case (after cleaning) - not a
2 lot if you are building gentoo on the machine. You will get more space
3 by cleaning out the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles (1.4G! at the
4 moment) and /var/tmp/portage (builds are left there).
5
6 BillK
7
8 On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 00:40, Burton Samograd wrote:
9 > hi,
10 >
11 > I was wondering if there was a way to mask off portage directories
12 > that you aren't using. Since i'm running a server, i have no need for
13 > the various gnome, kde ebuilds, and since my server is an old laptop,
14 > I would like as much disk space as possible. I know that you can
15 > specify excluded files and directories to rsync, but is there a way to
16 > pass this file to portage? Is this handled by package.mask?
17 >
18 > burton

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Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories Alexander Gretencord <arutha@×××.de>