I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is.
I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This has - to the best of my knowledge - all the ebuild headers or whatever for everything. I know I can un-tar this and all, however, I want portage to use it in its uncompressed state, just to speed things up. I'm not burning for hard drive space, so a little more speed would be great. However, I have no idea where to start to try and configure portage to reflect a change like this. I've read the man pages for ebuild and emerge several times over without finding any hints, so I was thinking someone on this list would know. I also think that there's another file, /metadata.tar.bz2, which I think is portage-related. If possible I'd like to uncompress that as well. I think this is the cause of a slow portage because everything takes a long time to start going, then it's just fine. It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration file from my old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked! I didn't even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst! Dang... I got done and said "that was easy." I think I'm really getting the hang of all this! -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list