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Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> Ok, so running through that forum I decided to try out some of the |
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> scripts to clean stale distfiles. |
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> The first one (distcleaner-0.0.2) returned a lot of errors. The second |
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> (distmaint.py) was too weird. Finally, (distclean.sh) seemed to be ok, |
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> and freed 255 MB. I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the |
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> emerge I end-up with 805Mb free. |
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> As you say Holly, this is far from enough if I want to compile |
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> something big and also maybe for smaller apps. Which means that I have |
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> a problem. |
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> In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My mistake was that I |
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> assumed that gentoo was not so space-consuming. Now I'll have to make |
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> some modifications, redo my partitions. What I would like was to clean |
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> once per all my windoz partition (9GB)... but from time to time I need |
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> it.. unless I find a replacement to all the things I need from there. |
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> Anyway, thanks for the replies. |
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> If someone has a nice script to maintain distfiles under control let |
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> me know. ;) |
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> Cheers, |
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> Fernando. |
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Not a script, but I have some machines with /usr/portage NFS'd to a |
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server (I'm thinking about doing the same with /var/tmp/portage/ also, |
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but don't know how to lock it to avoid colisions). |
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If you have a desktop, you can do the same, and also use distcc to |
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accelerate the builds. |
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Francisco |
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