From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FjLeG-00059j-4Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 19:37:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4PJaBxX014183; Thu, 25 May 2006 19:36:11 GMT Received: from chi.asmallorange.com (chi.asmallorange.com [70.85.217.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4PJUOHZ024400 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 19:30:25 GMT Received: from cpe-72-226-202-246.rochester.res.rr.com ([72.226.202.246]:56862 helo=localhost) by chi.asmallorange.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.52) id 1FjLXL-0001Bc-9u for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:30:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:30:11 -0400 From: Thomas Kirchner To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow Message-ID: <20060525193011.GA31991@halffull.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - chi.asmallorange.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - halffull.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: 617774b5-c9fb-4b2c-b64e-765a8c3b0ab2 X-Archives-Hash: 98675840c8d4e41b05739dbfcacea21f * On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete that file. Portage is already using uncompressed files under /usr/portage - that tarball is just a "starter" tarball that portage bootstraps itself with during the initial Gentoo installation. > I also think that there's another file, /metadata.tar.bz2, which I > think is portage-related. If possible I'd like to uncompress that as > well. I've never seen a metadata tarball. metadata.xml is something portage keeps uncompressed in /usr/portage for every package. > It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! I think so ;) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list