Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal

[skaar <skaar@aol.net>]

* Timothy Robinson (tdrobinson@huli.org) [021207 13:44]:
> 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

or you could set DISTDIR/PKGDIR in make.conf

/skaar

> 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.
> 
> This:
> 
> mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete 
> --delete-after --exclude='distfiles/*' --exclude='packages/*' "
> 
> would be changed to this:
> 
> mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete 
> --delete-after --exclude='/distfiles/' --exclude='/packages/' "
> 
> Thanks for the consideration,
> Timothy Robinson
> 
> 
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