From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbB9l-0004r5-Mb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:57:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26269E0529; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C55B7E0529 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2008 08:57:05 -0000 Received: from p54975E9B.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO localhost) [84.151.94.155] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 17 Mar 2008 09:57:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #8201419 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX196vb5PdAJ6vdLypXHmsnN1q3r00CAuDa9g9vuI/o FonavqIoZbIEA3 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:57:05 +0100 From: Emil Beinroth To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage Message-ID: <20080317085704.GA6326@stovokor.kiste.lan> References: <20080317012241.GA1689@gentoovm.localdomain> <47DDD198.4020701@xaerolimit.net> <5251dbe30803162313r10430c6x5dc29153d8e1a614@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5251dbe30803162313r10430c6x5dc29153d8e1a614@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 91d7f4c7-da36-4aec-9a6c-1eb4f31b541b X-Archives-Hash: f541554b6636f8815a1086c68523c2ec --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, another thing that might help is not generating the cache at all. It appears that we can get away with what is in /usr/portage/metadata/cache. I've put -metadata-transfer into FEATURES to tell portage to skip the "Generating cache" stuff, and added the following to my /etc/portage/modules: portdbapi.auxdbmodule =3D cache.metadata_overlay.database I don't guarantee anything, but I've been using this approach for a while (a year or so) and never had any problems. I also am using squashfs+aufs for my portage tree, which - apart from speeding things up here - has the nice little effect that /usr/portage now only takes up about 50MB in a .sqfs image. You will need to get aufs from the sunrise overlay, but if you are not comfortable doing so you can use squashfs+unionfs as explained in this gentoo-wiki article [1] If you intend to use aufs, Martin V=C3=A4th (who is also the current maintainer of eix) has written a nifty little init-script for handling those images (see "initscripts.tar.gz" on [2]). HTH, Emil [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_VERY_small_Portage_Tree_with_SquashFS_and_= UnionFS [2] http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vaeth/gentoo/index.html --=20 Emil Beinroth 83059 Kolbermoor | Germany =20 Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should= be happier than others. -- Oscar Wilde --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3jJgwejcL/HbYLIRApCBAJwNZvExSFQl+/1ROdl6jwdw5qmxyACfYWDU w6W0WHrQeemdMvBxOITIqB8= =x+jv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list