* Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal
@ 2002-12-07 21:13 99% ` Mike Frysinger
0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2002-12-07 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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
^ permalink raw reply [relevance 99%]
Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2002-12-07 18:38 [gentoo-dev] emerge rsync proposal Timothy Robinson
2002-12-07 21:13 99% ` Mike Frysinger
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox