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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online. |
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>> Yet it does. |
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>>> I |
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>>> think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine, |
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>>> files that I'm currently using, files that I require. |
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>> It doesn't. It may remove files from the portage tree, but those are |
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>> not in use except when emerging. The ebuilds for your installed packages |
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>> are kept in /var/db/pkg. |
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> It does. |
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> QUESTION: Was the file /usr/portage/distfiles/xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz |
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> on my system? |
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> ANSWER: Yes |
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> QUESTION: After eix-sync or building xorg-server-1.5 is the file |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles/xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz still on my system? |
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> ANSWER: No. |
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> It does remove files. I don't know when, but they are gone. |
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> Can I go find these files somewhere? Almost certainly - in backups, in |
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> the attic, on other machines - somewhere. |
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> Should I be spending my time this way? My thought is no, but then |
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> again, that's just me. Apparently portage devs disagree and if I want |
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> to run this distro I guess it's their way or the highway. (Doesn't |
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> rhyme so well from the user's point of view, but then again, the guy |
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> getting poked in the eye by the stick isn't supposed to think it feels |
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> good, is he?) |
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> Good night. I'll come back in a few days and see if this feels any |
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> better, assuming I still have a key to the house. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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I have never seen eix-sync or even emerge remove a file from distfiles. |
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The distfiles directory is excluded during a sync and is not changed at |
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all. There is a command, eclean, that will remove cruft from distfiles |
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but only if it is not installed on the system. |
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It seems to me that something is not quite right on your system. I'm |
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not sure what but something is fishy somewhere. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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