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You can separate the package directory and distfiles directory from the |
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ebuild tree. |
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PORTDIR="/usr/portage" |
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DISTDIR="/usr/portage-distfiles" |
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PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages" |
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That lets you keep the ebuilds local to your laptop. |
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:08 PM William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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> PORTDIR="/mnt/mfs/portage" |
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> /mnt/mfs is a moosefs fuse mount |
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> shared full tree including distfiles, and separate package files for |
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> different hardware groups |
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> BillK |
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> On 27/2/20 9:56 am, Michael Jones wrote: |
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> When you say you have a remote portage. What do you mean? |
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> The actual portage tree, with all the ebuilds? Or something else? |
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 18:08 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a |
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>> network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine. However, |
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>> being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very |
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>> slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even |
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>> slower to the point of not always being practical |
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>> Is there a way to localise/speedup portage scanning parts of the |
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>> update/install process? |
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>> 1. put it on a squashfs share to save space (the laptop is running btrfs |
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>> with compression so I don't think that will get me much) |
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>> 2. put portage on an sd card and mount it when necessary |
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>> The laptop is a Surface Pro4 so expanding the storage is not practical - |
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>> though I could shrink the windows partition a little more. |
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>> BillK |
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