[gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

[Lord Sauron]

I think I may have made a break through here!

I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow.  It's like
it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time...  lo and
behold, it is.

I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive:
/portage-20060123.tar.bz2

This has - to the best of my knowledge - all the ebuild headers or
whatever for everything.  I know I can un-tar this and all, however, I
want portage to use it in its uncompressed state, just to speed things
up.  I'm not burning for hard drive space, so a little more speed
would be great.

However, I have no idea where to start to try and configure portage to
reflect a change like this.  I've read the man pages for ebuild and
emerge several times over without finding any hints, so I was thinking
someone on this list would know.

I also think that there's another file, /metadata.tar.bz2, which I
think is portage-related.  If possible I'd like to uncompress that as
well.

I think this is the cause of a slow portage because everything takes a
long time to start going, then it's just fine.  It takes about as long
to start going as it does to open the archive
/portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence?  I think not!

I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my
hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it.  It was
remarkably easy to install!  I loaded the configuration file from my
old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked!  I didn't
even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst!  Dang...  I got done and said
"that was easy."  I think I'm really getting the hang of all this!

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