From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDUhc-000331-05 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:17:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j88MCetP023048; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:12:40 GMT Received: from perch.kroah.org (mail.kroah.org [69.55.234.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j88MAtx0021597 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:10:56 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-115-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.115.24]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j88MEdw10953 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:14:39 -0700 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1EDUeo-1iI-00 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:14:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:14:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources Message-ID: <20050908221409.GA6523@kroah.com> References: <431C97C4.3070406@gentoo.org> <6fd8e3c0509081449160eefe6@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6fd8e3c0509081449160eefe6@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Archives-Salt: 10020cce-bddf-434c-98aa-be8609091958 X-Archives-Hash: bfbf92028739898046b55ad1191f4363 On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, twofourtysix wrote: > On 05/09/05, Petteri R?ty wrote: > > I have a couple of old machines I maintain and emerging and unmerging > > kernel sources take a while because there are so many files. Also one > > set of gentoo sources takes about 230MB of disk space. By removing stuff > > not belonging to x86 I was able to succesfully run make with 58MB/230MB > > removed. The stuff I removed: > > arch/* except i386 and x86_64 > > include/asm-* expect asm-generic, asm-i386 and asm-x86_64 > > Is this safe? No it isn't. Please don't try to do this, it's not worth it. If disk space is limited, just build on one box, and install the kernel to the other one. Or, put the kernel source on a cd, and build off of it (putting the objects on your local disk.) This lets you only use the local disk for your built objects. thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list