Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long?

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 3/17/06, Bruno Lustosa <bruno.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@veldy.net> wrote:
> > I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
> > days!!!  This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
> >
> >  >>> Updating Portage cache:   50%
> >
> > Just trying to do a sync ....
>
> Good question :)
> But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
> cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
> cache update.
> There are directions here:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
>

New versions of portage are using a different approuch on metadata and
cache, after sync'ng, a week later it took like 1 minute to update the
cache with the new version.

My advice, update portage, "emerge --metadata",  wait for it to finish
(yes, will take a LOT of time, your machine is below 1GHz, wich will
slow it even more), but in the end, you'll update much faster. CDB is
just a workaround and you can't use it with the most recent version of
portage.

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Daniel da Veiga
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