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 1EKbsE-0000j2-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:21:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SDC0nw028565; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:12:00 GMT Received: from atom.dmkhost.net (atom.dmkhost.net [67.15.82.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SCxTvP004552 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:59:29 GMT Received: from bhi151.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.28.98.151]:47320 helo=[192.168.1.77]) by atom.dmkhost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1EKbdh-0001gV-HA for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:06:31 +0200 Message-ID: <433A94B9.40807@quanteam.info> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:03:53 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGF3ZcWCIE1hZGVq?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050916) 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] Size of portage tree References: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-cPanel-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-cPanel-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-cPanel-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-cPanel-MailScanner-From: linux@quanteam.info X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - atom.dmkhost.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - quanteam.info X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j8SDC0oH028565 X-Archives-Salt: e4ecdec0-612e-4559-b512-62f8cdd40f72 X-Archives-Hash: f111b34e64d9f6a90a7b5a584c62f671 Ryan Viljoen wrote: > If you do a: > du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles > and a > du -hs /usr/portage >=20 > You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the=20 > distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it=20 > downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of=20 > the directory you can go through it and delete older versions of=20 > packages such as: >=20 > I have: > zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 > zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 >=20 > So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I=20 > think there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent= =20 > bothered to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since i= f=20 > you want to reinstall or add new packages they may require files that=20 > have been already downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth of=20 > redownloading them. if you use getdelta to fetch updates you can set REMOVE_OLD=3Dtrue in /etc/deltup/getdelta.rc and it will delete old file as above=20 zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 after successfull make of new version from patches. More about getdelta on [1] [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Deltup Greets Pawe=C5=82 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list