Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. >> >> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. >> > > eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit > > >> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink >> /var/ftp/distfiles to it. >> >> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere? >> > > Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location > > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage > and > it's in your home directory owned by you. > > Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to > distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way. > > >> I should do both solution. >> >> thank you >> Laurent >> > >
I think he is running our of disk space and trying to move it to a partition that has more space. He didn't say that but I think that is the issue at hand. I do suspect that this could cause . . . . issues in the long run. Permissions is a good one to mention. Dale :-) :-)
