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Ryan Viljoen wrote: |
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> If you do a: |
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> du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles |
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> and a |
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> du -hs /usr/portage |
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> |
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> You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the |
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> distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it |
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> downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of |
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> the directory you can go through it and delete older versions of |
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> packages such as: |
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> I have: |
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> zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 |
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> zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 |
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> |
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> So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I |
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> think there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent |
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> bothered to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since if |
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> you want to reinstall or add new packages they may require files that |
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> have been already downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth of |
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> redownloading them. |
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if you use getdelta to fetch updates you can set |
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REMOVE_OLD=true |
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in /etc/deltup/getdelta.rc and it will delete old file as above |
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zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 after successfull make of new version from patches. |
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More about getdelta on [1] |
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[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Deltup |
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Greets |
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Paweł |
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