Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] compile large packages outside "/var/tmp/portage/"
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:40:15
Message-Id: 20130414193957.4f6b4fc4@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] compile large packages outside "/var/tmp/portage/" by Joseph
1 On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:33:50 -0600, Joseph wrote:
2
3 > How to configure portage not to compile large packages (eg. firefox,
4 > thunderbird etc) in "/var/tmp/portage/" (RAM disk)? I have only assign
5 > 4GB and these packages need more room to compile.
6
7 I use these two files
8
9 % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
10 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"
11
12 % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
13 app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf
14
15 /mnt/scratch is a dumping ground partition with enough space to keep LO
16 happy, use wherever you want.
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19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 God is real, unless specifically declared integer.

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