[gentoo-alpha] Portage

[gentoo-alpha] Portage

[Donsbach, Jeff]

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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.

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Jeff Donsbach
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Re: [gentoo-alpha] Portage

[Rick Altherr]

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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Re: [gentoo-alpha] Portage

[Rikard Johnels]

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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