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From: Bruno Lustosa <bruno.lists@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:07:21
Message-Id: b9e0c3fe0603170602q48b64447s7af461425f292a72@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? by "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
1 On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@×××××.net> wrote:
2 > I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
3 > days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
4 >
5 > >>> Updating Portage cache: 50%
6 >
7 > Just trying to do a sync ....
8
9 Good question :)
10 But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
11 cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
12 cache update.
13 There are directions here:
14
15 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
16
17 HTH
18
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20 Bruno Lustosa <bruno@×××××××.net>
21 http://www.lustosa.net/
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Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@×××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@×××××.com>