Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:24:16
Message-Id: 20141218082359.479bb124@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2
3 > Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage
4 > because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain
5 > packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that
6 > is it?
7
8 You can change PORTAGE_TMPDIR per-package. I have it on a tmpfs and then
9 change it for packages like LO.
10
11 % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
12 app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf
13
14 % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
15 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"
16
17
18 --
19 Neil Bothwick
20
21 ... "I just forgot to increment the counter," Tom said, nonplussed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox covici@××××××××××.com
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>