Re: [gentoo-server] trim down portage directory

["Tomasz Lutelmowski" <tomek@lutel.pl>]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:51:48 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote
> Tomasz Lutelmowski wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here is one-liner which can be helpful if you want to trim down your gentoo
> > installation, particulary /usr/portage directory and/or lower emerge 
> > --sync times / save bandwidth (requires app-portage/portage-utils):
> > 
> > (echo -e "+ profiles**\n+ eclass**\n+ metadata*\n+ metadata/cache*\n+ 
> > metadata/dtd**\n+ metadata/glsa**\n+ metadata/news**\n+ scripts**"; for 
> > f in `qlist -IC | cut -f1 -d'/' | sort | uniq | sort`; do echo "+ $f**"; 
> > echo "+ metadata/cache/$f**"; done; echo "- */") > 
> > /etc/portage/rsync_excludes
> > 
> > you need also to add this line to make.conf
> > 
> > PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
> 
> This is a bit short-sighted. Using this doesn't allow you to install 
> any additional packages (unless the package and its dependencies 
> happen to be in the category of a package you already have installed)
>  and will break dep resolution when the dependencies change for any 
> packages that you currently have installed.


This is true, anyway I'm using it on all production servers with stable and
final set of packages. 
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