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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:35:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Except it's not 500MB, as you'll see by looking at the snapshots |
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> > directory on any Gentoo mirror. Of course, the fact that portage |
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> > trees for the last couple of weeks are nicely tarred up on all the |
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> > Gentoo mirrors makes this process pointless anyway :) |
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> My /usr/portage (without distfiles) is 558,560 blocks of 1k each. I |
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> have no idea what it will .tar.gz down to |
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33.1MB with bzip2, see |
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http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots/ |
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There's not much point in making your own when this is available :) |
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I have /usr/portage mounted on a sparse file, as per |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#MultiPurpose_Trick |
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That page lists ease of backing up as a benefit, but I've never felt the |
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need to do that. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Windows95: <win-doz-nin-te-fiv> n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical |
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shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded |
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for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand |
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1 bit of competition. |
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