George Roberts wrote:
Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system.
I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it
has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could
be safely flushed.
You might wanna take a look at tmpwatch (emerge -uDa
Thanks again to all that have helped me.
After following your instructions I have dropped from over 6 gigs down
to 3.8 gigs, which seems to be a more reasonable figure to me.
I am on a cable connection so re-downloading is not a major issue with me.
My distfiles had grown to 1.2 gigs, and yes al
To add to this, many updates are released as a patch to the existing
source, so again, an upgrade without the source will require it to be
downloaded - again.
There are utilities (search the forums) that will clean distfiles,
limiting it to only the installed sources - these usually work well.
Ho
Holly Bostick wrote:
George Roberts wrote:
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that
if I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:32:29 -0700
George Roberts wrote:
> Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
>
> By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
> system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today.
no a snapshot is a tarball of the /usr/portage
George Roberts wrote:
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that if
I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages in use as
of today
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that if
I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages in use as
of today would be rebuilt. Or
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700
George Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system.
> I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it
> has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could
> be safel
George Roberts wrote:
I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it
has downloaded
/usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although
doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if
you ever need to reinstall any of the programs
everything inside /var/tmp/portage can be deleted. this is the area
where portage builds packages. if everything sompletes cleanly there is
usually not too much cruft here, but if an ebuild craps out it can leave
a lot of stuff. PS don't do this in the middle of an active ebuild, it
will well and t
You can safely drop /var/tmp/portage to reclaim a lot of space.
/usr/portage will typically contain the distribution files for those pieces
that you've emerged; you can remove these but re-emerging/updating would
download them again.
To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing th
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700, George Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time
> it has grown to over 6 gigs.
> I found FINDCRUFT from the forum:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197&highlight=findcruf
Hi all.
I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time
it has grown to over 6 gigs.
I found FINDCRUFT from the forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197&highlight=findcruft.
When I run the script, it outputs a file that is 4.4 megs in size. Most
of which poi
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