[gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent]

Hi,

I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.

For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.

If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink 
/var/ftp/distfiles to it.

Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere?

I should do both solution.

thank you
Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Dale]

laurent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>
> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
>
> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>
> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH
> somewhere?
>
> I should do both solution.
>
> thank you
> Laurent
>
>


If you need to clean out unneeded tarballs in distfiles, you can use
eclean.  It's part of gentoolkit.  eclean-dist is the command you are
looking for.  eclean-dist -h for more info.

If you want to move the distfiles directory, you can change the path in
make.conf and tell it where the new location is.  You will have to copy
the files from the old location to the new location tho.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent]

Dale a écrit :
> laurent wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>>
>> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
>>
>> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
>> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>>
>> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH
>> somewhere?
>>
>> I should do both solution.
>>
>> thank you
>> Laurent
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> If you need to clean out unneeded tarballs in distfiles, you can use
> eclean.  It's part of gentoolkit.  eclean-dist is the command you are
> looking for.  eclean-dist -h for more info.
>
> If you want to move the distfiles directory, you can change the path in
> make.conf and tell it where the new location is.  You will have to copy
> the files from the old location to the new location tho.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>
>
>
>   
Yes it help, got 50 M clean with eclean.

I looked in make.conf but did not see any 'DISTFILES_PATH'. What should 
I add?
my make.conf:

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that 
automatically built$
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ 
ftp://mirror.ovh.net/ge$
USE="-X mmx multilib netboot sse sse2 -gtk -sdl apache2 mysql pam ssl 
sasl xml $
FEATURES="-sandbox collision-protect ccache parallel-fetch"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"

source /home/portage/local/layman/make.conf
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home/portage

Thanks ;)
Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[darren kirby]

quoth the laurent:
>I looked in make.conf but did not see any 'DISTFILES_PATH'. What should 
>I add?
> Thanks ;)
> Laurent

DISTDIR=/where/you/want/them

see 'man make.conf' for explanation and more...

-d
-- 
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:59:30 +0100, laurent wrote:

> I looked in make.conf but did not see any 'DISTFILES_PATH'. What should 
> I add?

DISTDIR - it's described in the make.conf man page.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Hyperbole is absolutely the worst mistake you can possibly make

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Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>
> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.

eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit

> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>
> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere?

Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location

But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and 
it's in your home directory owned by you.

Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to 
distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way.

> I should do both solution.
>
> thank you
> Laurent

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>>
>> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
>>     
>
> eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit
>
>   
>> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
>> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>>
>> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere?
>>     
>
> Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location
>
> But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and 
> it's in your home directory owned by you.
>
> Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to 
> distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way.
>
>   
>> I should do both solution.
>>
>> thank you
>> Laurent
>>     
>
>   

I think he is running our of disk space and trying to move it to a
partition that has more space.  He didn't say that but I think that is
the issue at hand.

I do suspect that this could cause . . . . issues in the long run. 
Permissions is a good one to mention.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent]

Dale a écrit :
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>>>
>>> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
>>>     
>>>       
>> eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
>>> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>>>
>>> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location
>>
>> But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and 
>> it's in your home directory owned by you.
>>
>> Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to 
>> distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way.
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> I should do both solution.
>>>
>>> thank you
>>> Laurent
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
>
> I think he is running our of disk space and trying to move it to a
> partition that has more space.  He didn't say that but I think that is
> the issue at hand.
>
> I do suspect that this could cause . . . . issues in the long run. 
> Permissions is a good one to mention.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>
>
>
>   
yes it's exactly that, I did not choose the install partitionning. So I 
moved portage, www and now disfiles from /var to /home/var.
For the other ones I did add a symlink also. Should I do that for 
disfiles? What do you mean by permissions issues ??

Another question about emerge -v world, I go a empty manifest on layman. 
What should I do to fix that ?

Thanks!
Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent]

Alan McKinnon a écrit :
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>>
>> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
>>     
>
> eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit
>
>   
>> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
>> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>>
>> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere?
>>     
>
> Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location
>
> But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and 
> it's in your home directory owned by you.
>   

drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  4096 mar 24 20:19 home

looks owned by root.
> Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to 
> distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way.
>
>   
>> I should do both solution.
>>
>> thank you
>> Laurent
>>     
>
>   

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:15 +0100, laurent wrote:

> yes it's exactly that, I did not choose the install partitionning. So I 
> moved portage, www and now disfiles from /var to /home/var.
> For the other ones I did add a symlink also. Should I do that for 
> disfiles? What do you mean by permissions issues ??

So you're putting it on the /home partition but not in your home
directory? In that case, permissions are not a problem as the directory
will only be used by portage, just set DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" in
make.conf, no need to mess around with symlinks.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont
either. -

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Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote:
> > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or
> > portage and it's in your home directory owned by you.
> >  
>
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  4096 mar 24 20:19 home
>
> looks owned by root.

/home is not your home directory.

Out of the box emerge runs as the portage user, which will not have write 
permission to your home directory unless you modify the ownership/permissions.

But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide 
to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks?

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent]

Alan McKinnon a écrit :
> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote:
>   
>>> But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or
>>> portage and it's in your home directory owned by you.
>>>  
>>>       
>> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  4096 mar 24 20:19 home
>>
>> looks owned by root.
>>     
>
> /home is not your home directory.
>
> Out of the box emerge runs as the portage user, which will not have write 
> permission to your home directory unless you modify the ownership/permissions.
>
> But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide 
> to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks?
>
>   
Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout. 
When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http 
server with client website on it.
The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how 
to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on.

Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Mike Kazantsev]

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:15 +0100
laurent <laurent@logiquefloue.org> wrote:

> Another question about emerge -v world, I go a empty manifest on layman. 
> What should I do to fix that ?

cd /usr/local/portage/layman/someoverlay/some/package && \
repoman manifest

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Mike Kazantsev]

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100
laurent <laurent@logiquefloue.org> wrote:

> > But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide 
> > to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks?
> >
> Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout. 
> When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http 
> server with client website on it.
> The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how 
> to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on.

It should be pretty easy to rsync /home to some other (temporary)
place, 'pvcreate /dev/home-whatever' and lvcreate, say, a
separate vol for portage (with it's ever-growing tree/distfiles) and
for /home, leaving plenty of space to play with, should you need it
either on these partitions or to create others.

Well, LVM is just what I mean ;)

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent]

Mike Kazantsev a écrit :
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100
> laurent <laurent@logiquefloue.org> wrote:
>
>   
>>> But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide 
>>> to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks?
>>>
>>>       
>> Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout. 
>> When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http 
>> server with client website on it.
>> The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how 
>> to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on.
>>     
>
> It should be pretty easy to rsync /home to some other (temporary)
> place, 'pvcreate /dev/home-whatever' and lvcreate, say, a
> separate vol for portage (with it's ever-growing tree/distfiles) and
> for /home, leaving plenty of space to play with, should you need it
> either on these partitions or to create others.
>
> Well, LVM is just what I mean ;)
>
>   
LVM...hm nice new word to me. And rsync too, looks good. Ok I will have 
a look when I'm safer.
Got that emerge -v world to finish ;)

I read about a tool to color the etc-update difference, can't find it 
again, if you know about it ;)
thx
Laurent.

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:41 +0100, laurent wrote:

> I read about a tool to color the etc-update difference, can't find it 
> again, if you know about it ;)

colordiff, it's in portage.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?

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