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From: Michael Jones <gentoo@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 01:56:45
Message-Id: CABfmKSL86bcUp-cW_MQZ_1W9riEU-17+4pQ3Dc1VOkzO7N0tnQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage by William Kenworthy
1 When you say you have a remote portage. What do you mean?
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3 The actual portage tree, with all the ebuilds? Or something else?
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5 On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 18:08 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
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7 > Hi,
8 >
9 > due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a
10 > network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine. However,
11 > being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very
12 > slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even
13 > slower to the point of not always being practical
14 >
15 > Is there a way to localise/speedup portage scanning parts of the
16 > update/install process?
17 >
18 > 1. put it on a squashfs share to save space (the laptop is running btrfs
19 > with compression so I don't think that will get me much)
20 >
21 > 2. put portage on an sd card and mount it when necessary
22 >
23 > The laptop is a Surface Pro4 so expanding the storage is not practical -
24 > though I could shrink the windows partition a little more.
25 >
26 > BillK
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Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>