[gentoo-dev] portage and full devices.

[gentoo-dev] portage and full devices.

[Terje Kvernes]

  the last few times my /usr has gone full while merging a package
  portage has done two things that scare me a bit:

   1) portage has done partial installs, parts of the package made it
      to the device, other parts of the package, didn't.
   2) the package gets listed as installed.

  are there any plans on fixing this anytime soon?  the solution is,
  as far as I can see, to check the size of the build-tree and see if
  there is enough space on the target device for the install to go
  through.  it does get tricky if the user uses symlinks or seperate
  partitions under the target root though.  one would probably have to
  check every directory the build-tree would install to, and mapping
  disk usage against the device that directory is on.  something like:

we're going to install as follows:

/usr/bin      2M
/usr/lib      2M
/usr/share   10M

  portage checks which device all of these are on, and gets told that
  /usr/bin and /usr/lib are on the same device (let's say /dev/hda3
  for short), but that /usr/share is somewhere else.  then we need 4M
  on /dev/hda3 and 10M where /usr/share is located.  does this sound
  doable?

-- 
Terje

Re: [gentoo-dev] portage and full devices.

[Grant Goodyear]

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On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 21:35, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> 
>   the last few times my /usr has gone full while merging a package
>   portage has done two things that scare me a bit:
> 
>    1) portage has done partial installs, parts of the package made it
>       to the device, other parts of the package, didn't.
>    2) the package gets listed as installed.

Have you posted a bug report?  If not, please do!  That's a rather
important bug to fix, but drobbins can't do it if he doesn't know about
it.

Thanks,
g2boojum



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Re: [gentoo-dev] portage and full devices.

[Terje Kvernes]

Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 21:35, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> 
> > the last few times my /usr has gone full while merging a package
> > portage has done two things that scare me a bit:
> > 
> >  1) portage has done partial installs, parts of the package made it
> >     to the device, other parts of the package, didn't.
> >  2) the package gets listed as installed.
> 
> Have you posted a bug report?  

  nope.  I thought I'd hear about things here first.  just in case
  anyone had any brilliant ideas, like saying "RTFM" or something to
  me.  ;-)

> If not, please do!  

  will do.

> That's a rather important bug to fix, but drobbins can't do it if he
> doesn't know about it.

  oki, I'll trot over to bugzilla and basically repost my earlier
  posting there.

-- 
Terje

Re: [gentoo-dev] portage and full devices.

[Terje Kvernes]

Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no> writes:

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> oki, I'll trot over to bugzilla and basically repost my earlier
> posting there.

  for the record: bug 8545 posted.

-- 
Terje