Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

["Francisco J. A. Ares" <frares@terra.com.br>]

Fernando Meira wrote:

> Ok, so running through that forum I decided to try out some of the
> scripts to clean stale distfiles.
> The first one (distcleaner-0.0.2) returned a lot of errors. The second
> (distmaint.py) was too weird. Finally, (distclean.sh) seemed to be ok,
> and freed 255 MB. I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the
> emerge I end-up with 805Mb free.
>
> As you say Holly, this is far from enough if I want to compile
> something big and also maybe for smaller apps. Which means that I have
> a problem.
> In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My mistake was that I
> assumed that gentoo was not so space-consuming. Now I'll have to make
> some modifications, redo my partitions. What I would like was to clean
> once per all my windoz partition (9GB)... but from time to time I need
> it.. unless I find a replacement to all the things I need from there.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the replies.
> If someone has a nice script to maintain distfiles under control let
> me know. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Fernando.
>

Not a script, but I have some machines with /usr/portage NFS'd to a
server (I'm thinking about doing the same with /var/tmp/portage/ also,
but don't know how to lock it to avoid colisions).

If you have a desktop, you can do the same, and also use distcc to
accelerate the builds.

Francisco

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