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Hi, |
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may be this is already possible and I am only repeating a very old |
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idea, but... |
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When emerging applikations, which are not already in the system, the |
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sources wll be downloaded from the net into /usr/portage/distfiles/. |
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Over the time, this directory will grow. |
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Is it possible to instruct emerge to search for already downloaded |
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archives in two directories but write only to one directory? |
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This would enable the following: |
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Say, the distfiles directory of system will take about 800MB of |
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space. Now one would be able to store/backup this stuff onto a CD |
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and mount this this CD under /usr/portage/distfiles_cd. |
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When emerging a new applikation, emerge will first look under |
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/usr/portage/distfiles_cd nad -- if not found -- under (for example) |
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/usr/portage/distfiles_new and if not found will download the archive |
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of this applikation to /usr/portage/distfiles_new. |
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When /usr/portage/distfiles_new becomes too big, one will combine the |
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contents of /usr/portage/distfiles_cd and /usr/portage/distfiles_new |
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again and burn the result onto a cd, which can be mounted under |
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/usr/portage/distfiles_cd again. And so on. |
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Would save a lot of space under / of files, which are used not so |
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often. |
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Is this already be possible or is this an idea may be? |
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Keep hacking! |
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mcc |
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