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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:17:04
Message-Id: 20050908221409.GA6523@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources by twofourtysix
1 On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, twofourtysix wrote:
2 > On 05/09/05, Petteri R?ty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
3 > > I have a couple of old machines I maintain and emerging and unmerging
4 > > kernel sources take a while because there are so many files. Also one
5 > > set of gentoo sources takes about 230MB of disk space. By removing stuff
6 > > not belonging to x86 I was able to succesfully run make with 58MB/230MB
7 > > removed. The stuff I removed:
8 > > arch/* except i386 and x86_64
9 > > include/asm-* expect asm-generic, asm-i386 and asm-x86_64
10 >
11 > Is this safe?
12
13 No it isn't. Please don't try to do this, it's not worth it. If disk
14 space is limited, just build on one box, and install the kernel to the
15 other one.
16
17 Or, put the kernel source on a cd, and build off of it (putting the
18 objects on your local disk.) This lets you only use the local disk for
19 your built objects.
20
21 thanks,
22
23 greg k-h
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources warnera6 <warnera6@×××××××.edu>