From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: Burton Samograd <kruhft@kruhft.dyndns.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
Date: 13 Sep 2002 06:31:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031869877.10660.8.camel@rattus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020912164028.GH5099@kruhft.dyndns.org>
The basic portage directory is ~200M in my case (after cleaning) - not a
lot if you are building gentoo on the machine. You will get more space
by cleaning out the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles (1.4G! at the
moment) and /var/tmp/portage (builds are left there).
BillK
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 00:40, Burton Samograd wrote:
> hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to mask off portage directories
> that you aren't using. Since i'm running a server, i have no need for
> the various gnome, kde ebuilds, and since my server is an old laptop,
> I would like as much disk space as possible. I know that you can
> specify excluded files and directories to rsync, but is there a way to
> pass this file to portage? Is this handled by package.mask?
>
> burton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 16:40 [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories Burton Samograd
2002-09-12 21:45 ` Doug Goldstein
2002-09-13 15:36 ` Burton Samograd
2002-09-14 12:41 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-12 22:31 ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2002-09-13 10:07 ` Alexander Gretencord
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