From: Rikard Johnels <rikjoh@norweb.se>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Portage
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:37:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402232137.38345.rikjoh@norweb.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077559697.2844.0.camel@deltazero.home>
On Monday 23 February 2004 19:08, Rick Altherr wrote:
> You can delete everything in /usr/portage/distfiles/. They're just the
> source tarballs. If something needs them, they'll just be redownloaded.
>
> Rick
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:48, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
> > Ok, this is probably a question for a "general" list, but here goes….
> >
> > The machine I've been installing Gentoo on is rather limited in disk
> > space. I've noticed that as I start installing things, the Portage
> > directory is growing rather quickly, thus filling up my / partition.
> > What's the best way from keeping the Portage tree from growing? Can
> > you limit the size of the "distfiles" directory somehow? That seems to
> > be the biggest.
> >
> > ----
> > Jeff Donsbach
> > Developer Resource Center T/(978) 506-5227
> > HP Partner Technical Services jeff.donsbach@hp.com
>
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Or you could do it the way i did.
NFS mount the /usr/portage tree
But that ofcourse requires a NFS server with enough space :)
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2004-02-23 16:48 [gentoo-alpha] Portage Donsbach, Jeff
2004-02-23 18:08 ` Rick Altherr
2004-02-23 20:37 ` Rikard Johnels [this message]
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