From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-01.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.33]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 78938AC3A1 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:31:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 6180 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002 22:31:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rattus.Localdomain) (203.59.205.55) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 22:31:21 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rattus.Localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC7913D61B; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 06:31:17 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories From: William Kenworthy To: Burton Samograd Cc: gentoo-dev List , gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20020912164028.GH5099@kruhft.dyndns.org> References: <20020912164028.GH5099@kruhft.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 13 Sep 2002 06:31:17 +0800 Message-Id: <1031869877.10660.8.camel@rattus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: e119a72e-1422-4703-876c-6ab95b65fbed X-Archives-Hash: 145a21f51ab6858c23d248ca74d9b1c7 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