On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:12:43 -0800, John Myers wrote:
but be
aware that many times, a minor (-rX) update to a package will use the
same tarball(s) the previous one, just applying more patches. So if you
delete all the tarballs, you'll have to download them again.
There are also packages
For distfiles, I do similar to the following:
# mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles.old
# mkdir -p /etc/portage
# echo local /usr/portage/distfiles.old /etc/portage/mirrors
# emerge -ef world
# rm /etc/portage/mirrors
# rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles.old
I think my mind
Looks like you setup a local mirror with your tarballs in it then emerge
-ef (where -e means reinstall everything in world and their dependencies
and -f means just fetch the tarballs), and then you remove the local
repository and the old tarballs directory (since you've just fetched
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Matthew Cline wrote:
Ok, I see now. I wasn't grasping the part where the emerge -ef world
was grabbing distfiles from the local system, not another mirror.
From man portage:
mirrors
Whenever portage encounters a mirror:// style URL it will look
up
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:04:06 +0900
Jason Stubbs wrote:
For distfiles, I do similar to the following:
# mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles.old
# mkdir -p /etc/portage
# echo local /usr/portage/distfiles.old /etc/portage/mirrors
# emerge -ef world
# rm /etc/portage/mirrors
#
Hi all,
I've been running Gentoo for a week or two now, all is going well, but
I'm using up a lot of hard disk space with all these sources I've
downloaded and uncompressed.
I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that
looks like a solution to this problem. So my
On Saturday 02 April 2005 19:48, James wrote:
I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything
that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is
there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked
source files and tarballs (e.g. emerge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that
looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is there a
function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked source files
and tarballs (e.g. emerge
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:48, James wrote:
should I delete them 'manually'?
Yes. Tarballs are in /usr/portage/distfiles, build areas are
in /var/tmp/portage. Delete the stuff in /var/tmp/portage as you wish, but be
aware that many times, a minor (-rX) update to a package will use the same
James wrote:
Hi all,
I've been running Gentoo for a week or two now, all is going well, but
I'm using up a lot of hard disk space with all these sources I've
downloaded and uncompressed.
Not that I'm aware of, but I've only been using Gentoo for 1 month
(FreeBSD for several years). The
Thanks!
James
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Saturday 02 April 2005 19:48, James wrote:
I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything
that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is
there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked
source files
On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:48, James wrote:
Hi all,
I've been running Gentoo for a week or two now, all is going well, but
I'm using up a lot of hard disk space with all these sources I've
downloaded and uncompressed.
I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything that
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