[gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[David Corbin]

While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr.  Looking closer at what was 
being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr.  Can this be pruned 
somehow?

David
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 16 June 2006 12:34, David Corbin wrote:
> While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr.  Looking closer at what
> was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr.  Can this be
> pruned somehow?

/usr/portage/distfiles contains the sources of everything that you have 
installed. If you delete it, it will be downloaded again the next time it is 
needed.

If you have buildpkg in your FEATURES (if you don't know what that is you 
don't), then everything that you have emerged will be stored in binary form 
in /usr/portage/packages.

eclean (which belongs to app-portage/gentoolkit) can be used to prune those 
two folders. Everything else in /usr/portage can be restored by emerge --sync 
if one ever deletes it. It is needed to emerge anything.

HtH

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:44:13 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

> > While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr.  Looking closer at
> > what was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr.  Can
> > this be pruned somehow?
> 
> /usr/portage/distfiles contains the sources of everything that you have 
> installed. If you delete it, it will be downloaded again the next time
> it is needed.
> 
> If you have buildpkg in your FEATURES (if you don't know what that is
> you don't), then everything that you have emerged will be stored in
> binary form in /usr/portage/packages.

I always point DISTDIR and PKGDIR to somewhere else, (PORTAGE_TMPDIR
too). It is safer to have them on a non-system partition, so you can't
cripple your computer if they fill up the partition.


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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[Teresa and Dale]

David Corbin wrote:

>While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr.  Looking closer at what was 
>being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr.  Can this be pruned 
>somehow?
>
>David
>  
>

Man eclean should help.  I think it is eclean distfiles for the command.

Hope that helps.

Dale
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[Alexander Skwar]

David Corbin wrote:
> While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr.  Looking closer at what was 
> being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr.  Can this be pruned 
> somehow?

eclean

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[Uwe Thiem]

On 16 June 2006 11:34, David Corbin wrote:
> While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr.  Looking closer at what
> was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr.  Can this be
> pruned somehow?

Sure. Remove all old tarballs under /usr/portage/distfiles.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

[Daniel Iliev]

It's my "quick & dirty" way for cleaning portage tree. Use at your own risk:

#rm -rf /usr/portage && emerge --sync

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