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On Saturday 07 December 2002 13:38, Timothy Robinson wrote: |
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> I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script. |
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> I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has |
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> more |
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> space than the root filesystem. Everytime I do an emerge sync, it |
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> overwrites |
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> this and creates a directory. A simple change to the rsync exclude |
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> statements |
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> would fix this problem. Have a look. |
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or you could simply do a mount bind on that directory ... |
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mount -o bind /path/to/other/distdir /usr/portage/distdir |
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or you could do as skaar says and set DISTDIR in your make.conf ... |
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the reason we enabled --delete is because old ebuilds and packages would |
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accumulate in users portage directory causing bugs to creep up that were |
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taken care of |
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-mike |
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