From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1233 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Dec 2002 21:13:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1224 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2002 21:13:54 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger Reply-To: vapier@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:13:02 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3DF2403F.6020807@huli.org> In-Reply-To: <3DF2403F.6020807@huli.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200212071613.02449.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal X-Archives-Salt: 50daa0a1-680b-46d3-8256-988e506e9270 X-Archives-Hash: 166686acef7f981645553f6f78949e87 On Saturday 07 December 2002 13:38, Timothy Robinson wrote: > I would like to propose a change to the rsync command in the emerge script. > I have /usr/portage/distfiles as a symlink to another filesytem that has > more > space than the root filesystem. Everytime I do an emerge sync, it > overwrites > this and creates a directory. A simple change to the rsync exclude > statements > would fix this problem. Have a look. or you could simply do a mount bind on that directory ... mount -o bind /path/to/other/distdir /usr/portage/distdir or you could do as skaar says and set DISTDIR in your make.conf ... the reason we enabled --delete is because old ebuilds and packages would accumulate in users portage directory causing bugs to creep up that were taken care of -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list