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 1EKcEL-0006lS-3J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:44:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SDY2jW023980; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:34:02 GMT Received: from mail.logixhosting.com (ns2.logixhosting.com [66.129.90.153]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SDRW06019868 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:27:32 GMT Received: (qmail 12317 invoked by uid 399); 28 Sep 2005 13:33:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.230.47.52?) (68.209.129.243) by pslabels.com with SMTP; 28 Sep 2005 13:33:55 -0000 Message-ID: <433A9BF3.2090103@serent.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:34:43 -0400 From: Kurt Guenther 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: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e28caeeb-3c30-4186-8634-af0bd3c3c7e9 X-Archives-Hash: 8954d371426a6c7337c65a75237f9610 Harry Putnam wrote: >I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in >size. Is this about normal? > > > Just add a crontab entry to delete files older then, say, 30 days in /usr/portage/distfiles. I've noticed on ~x86 that there is often a number of portage changes on the same release for the first few days, so doing this daily is too much, but 15-30 days is about right. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list