* Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources
@ 2005-09-08 22:22 99% ` warnera6
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From: warnera6 @ 2005-09-08 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, twofourtysix wrote:
>
>>On 05/09/05, Petteri R?ty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> 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.
IMHO it is, but not as a USE flag (it will never be stable enough
without upstream support) but I think many would find the functionality
useful in a script. I know I would. If it works most of the time and
saves space, there is no reason not trim things. If it breaks, you
immediately revert to a normal build.
>
> 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
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