On Wednesday 14 July 2010 19:45:46 Florian Philipp wrote: > Portage relies on rsync for it's emerge --sync. You can add extra > command line parameters to the rsync call by specifying them in the > variable > PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS > in your /etc/make.conf > > Take a look at `man rsync` for a list of possible options and `man > make.conf` for a list of all default options. > > For example, you could specify --out-format '.' > That way, for every file it will only print a single dot and a line > feed. That way, you can still monitor progress with a minimum of > traffic.
What rsync should do, as I suggested recently , is not mention any directory in which it does no work. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
