From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8009 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Dec 2002 21:32:21 -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 7997 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2002 21:32:21 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF268AD.6050005@huli.org> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 16:31:25 -0500 From: Timothy Robinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vapier@gentoo.org CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3DF2403F.6020807@huli.org> <200212071613.02449.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200212071613.02449.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal X-Archives-Salt: 9def59bd-eed4-493f-8de8-1f3fdba027a9 X-Archives-Hash: c775e0c1579540adb83cf9b05185614a Mike Frysinger wrote: >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 > I understand that there are different ways to fix my specific problem. I think that the proposed exclude syntax to rsync is correct for what needs to be accomplished, which is to leave the distdir and packages directories alone. The current syntax will leave everything underneath these directories alone, but not the directories themselves. If that is what the maintainers desire, then so be it. But if not, I have given the suggested changes. Thanks, Timothy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list