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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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