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Hi, |
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another thing that might help is not generating the cache at all. It |
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appears that we can get away with what is in /usr/portage/metadata/cache. |
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I've put -metadata-transfer into FEATURES to tell portage to skip the |
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"Generating cache" stuff, and added the following to my |
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/etc/portage/modules: |
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portdbapi.auxdbmodule = cache.metadata_overlay.database |
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I don't guarantee anything, but I've been using this approach for a |
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while (a year or so) and never had any problems. |
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I also am using squashfs+aufs for my portage tree, which - apart from |
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speeding things up here - has the nice little effect that /usr/portage |
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now only takes up about 50MB in a .sqfs image. |
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You will need to get aufs from the sunrise overlay, but if you are not |
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comfortable doing so you can use squashfs+unionfs as explained in this |
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gentoo-wiki article [1] |
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If you intend to use aufs, Martin Väth (who is also the current |
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maintainer of eix) has written a nifty little init-script for handling |
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those images (see "initscripts.tar.gz" on [2]). |
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HTH, Emil |
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[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_VERY_small_Portage_Tree_with_SquashFS_and_UnionFS |
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[2] http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vaeth/gentoo/index.html |
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Emil Beinroth |
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83059 Kolbermoor | Germany |
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be |
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happier than others. -- Oscar Wilde |
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