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On 2015-01-24 05:20, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> for my embedded systems I use gentoo. Their "harddisk"s are simple |
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> microSDcards. |
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> When updateing or emerging especially the "Calculation |
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> dependencies..." is a step which needs a lot of patience of the |
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> user (me ;). |
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> Is there any way to make it faster or (in other words): Are there |
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> different ways to "Calculating dependencies..." and have only chossen |
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> the slowest one...? |
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> What can I do to spped it up? |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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> PS: This is ***NO*** complain against Gentoo, the emerge-process or |
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> any other implizit or explizit critism!!! |
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> I *love* Gentoo -- thats why I am using it even for my embedded |
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> systems. |
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> PPS: Yes, I know of crosscompiling and other way to do the hard work |
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> on another machine. I screwed up my systems more than once in the past |
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> with my attempts to get that working. I want to natively compile on |
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> the embedded systems therefore. |
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Recent change to make portage a bit faster (or to fail faster): |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536926 |
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Binary packages: |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/94176 |
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As far as I know, there is no magical tuning that would speed up portage |
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(it would be enabled by default I believe ;)). |
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