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Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 12:50 +0530 schrieb Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan |
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Neomal: |
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> Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? |
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Yes: /var/db/pkg (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS) |
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The information in /var/db/pkg is more nicely accessed through the |
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utilities in app-portage/portage-utils and app-portage/gentoolkit. |
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Install theses packages and play with the tools - it will make your |
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gentoo-life a lot nicer :) |
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A must (at least for me) is also app-portage/eix to access the |
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information in /usr/portage quickly. |
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> Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains |
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> few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB … Where other distro’s like |
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> slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or |
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> Gnome . |
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1st: |
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# rm /usr/portage/distfiles/* |
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Then: Gentoo installs (in binary distros terms) all "*-dev" packages |
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(all libs and headers), as it needs this for compiling - that blows the |
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system a lot. |
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In my system (GNOME, lots of servers, development software) the |
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installed package DB (/var/db/pkg) is about 200 MB. |
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The portage tree (/usr/portage) is about 500 MB for everybody... |
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> Where should I look for information … |
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* Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes. |
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* Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are |
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distributed on your disk. |
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Bye, |
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Daniel |
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