Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

[Dunc <dunc@lemonia.org>]

Paweł Madej wrote:

> Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
>
>> This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install
>> or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to
>> do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to
>> let it do just when updating portage tree .... :)
>>
>> Holpe it helps, Allan
>
>
> Thx for fast answer.
>
> Ok I'll leave it as is, but maybe is there any way too speedup it? It
> runs on my P3 800 / HDD 5400 rpm more that 10 minutes.
>
> Or it is working on every computer so slowly?
>
> Greets
> Paweł
>
That sounds a bit slow, but not massively so, it takes a long time.

You could CRON your emerge sync to happen in the middle of the night,
and then you won't have to watch it. :-)

For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad
though.

Cheers,

Dunc



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