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 4.43) id 1E1tKK-00057s-EW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:09:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j77M816T005422; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:08:01 GMT Received: from itapoa.terra.com.br (itapoa.terra.com.br [200.154.55.227]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j77M4NHZ004584 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:04:24 GMT Received: from enugu.terra.com.br (enugu.terra.com.br [200.176.10.9]) by itapoa.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAAB8C0028 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:04:34 -0300 (BRT) X-Terra-Karma: -2% X-Terra-Hash: f225e2c77690a655a19f38f37345c48d Received-SPF: pass (enugu.terra.com.br: domain of terra.com.br designates 200.176.10.9 as permitted sender) client-ip=200.176.10.9; envelope-from=frares@terra.com.br; helo=[200.158.231.195]; Received: from [200.158.231.195] (200-158-231-195.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.158.231.195]) (authenticated user frares) by enugu.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id C101D4002D for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:04:33 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <42F68570.5070408@terra.com.br> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:04:32 -0300 From: "Francisco J. A. Ares" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050723 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage References: <62c482fd.82fd62c4@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5672c139-caeb-4208-b471-35597ecfb728 X-Archives-Hash: d6fd0cc724599945b62dd1210471c2a3 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list