* [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
@ 2002-09-12 16:40 Burton Samograd
2002-09-12 21:45 ` Doug Goldstein
2002-09-12 22:31 ` William Kenworthy
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From: Burton Samograd @ 2002-09-12 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev, gentoo-dev
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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
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
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
2002-09-12 22:31 ` William Kenworthy
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Doug Goldstein @ 2002-09-12 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Burton Samograd, gentoo-dev
Even if you mask out the directories... emerge will still update and
download the ebuilds when you rsync. Masked doesn't mean it's removed.
It just means it's hidden from production level systems. People can
still install these programs and use them.
--
Doug Goldstein
Developer (Laptops, WiFi, GCC-3.1)
Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~cardoe/
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
2002-09-12 16:40 [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories Burton Samograd
2002-09-12 21:45 ` Doug Goldstein
@ 2002-09-12 22:31 ` William Kenworthy
2002-09-13 10:07 ` Alexander Gretencord
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: William Kenworthy @ 2002-09-12 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Burton Samograd; +Cc: gentoo-dev List, gentoo-dev
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
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
2002-09-12 22:31 ` William Kenworthy
@ 2002-09-13 10:07 ` Alexander Gretencord
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Gretencord @ 2002-09-13 10:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Friday 13 September 2002 00:31, William Kenworthy wrote:
> The basic portage directory is ~200M in my case (after cleaning) - not a
> lot if you are building gentoo on the machine.
Mine is 235M and yes that is quite a lot if you're not living on a 60G drive
but a 3.2G drive like my router.
> You will get more space by cleaning out the contents of
> /usr/portage/distfiles (1.4G! at the moment)
Well if you let that grow to 1.4G thats your problem you can clean that after
each emerge if you know you won't need the sources anymore.
> and /var/tmp/portage (builds are left there).
Not true. All thats left there are some logs.
Alex
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
2002-09-12 21:45 ` Doug Goldstein
@ 2002-09-13 15:36 ` Burton Samograd
2002-09-14 12:41 ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Burton Samograd @ 2002-09-13 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:45:01PM +0000, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Even if you mask out the directories... emerge will still update and
> download the ebuilds when you rsync. Masked doesn't mean it's removed.
> It just means it's hidden from production level systems. People can
> still install these programs and use them.
>
So, since it doesn't seem to be possible to prune the portage tree,
would there be any problems with sharing the directory with annother
machine using NFS or something similar?
burton
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories
2002-09-13 15:36 ` Burton Samograd
@ 2002-09-14 12:41 ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2002-09-14 12:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Friday 13 September 2002 17:36, Burton Samograd wrote:
>
> So, since it doesn't seem to be possible to prune the portage tree,
> would there be any problems with sharing the directory with annother
> machine using NFS or something similar?
>
Only speed considerations are relevant. Those considerations have allready
been relieved by the caching that is employed by the system.
--
Paul de Vrieze
Junior Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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