From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmOWm-0003BR-Li for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:32:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05491E04B7; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4640E04B7 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so1985081yxn.46 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:31:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/Xep/S1r33YnRtwL1deonLOsJRuk2FDoTeCwpIEHpI0=; b=h6Xe8dF9EKSsJL+ipgHIyt6yHhbe/8reDUk9Bp22Gotnsc7ojAQqj3iKIj+DHvQ39+ Z+9k/cqaZWYhkIpxMc9AElTbnQrfjBogimMjSa/kLJfV9ih3vbLgvpZF4YGaKYsnbsHz IcpASS76z3wZ8OaYkAsM82eM37saRD7dDiFc8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cpp8nxO2cKdzAN2Dxjfal/2m8ZBvawmWdMCNkdtX5RXRYqss1LFgPxdooq9BfUL0vW yzncsqx9+zd8yQLrpYQ9n67vYeLi4JYckM4Fg5dI5KBBABMtmiGVj/sXT1NU9wMU/OIk kfGIStJdpMfWNQD5+htyL4e9vfNUNmeNQ3GwU= Received: by 10.100.46.10 with SMTP id t10mr825984ant.46.1237969918571; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?4.230.117.188? (dialup-4.230.117.188.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c40sm2165840anc.28.2009.03.25.01.31.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49C9EBF9.1000806@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:31:53 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles References: <49C952AE.40904@logiquefloue.org> <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 042b3656-89a3-474a-a68a-d917a3ac181d X-Archives-Hash: 7f5a7d44291f2dcc076ddfe1d256b1ba Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. >> >> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. >> > > eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit > > >> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink >> /var/ftp/distfiles to it. >> >> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere? >> > > Change DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to the new location > > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and > it's in your home directory owned by you. > > Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that points to > distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any way. > > >> I should do both solution. >> >> thank you >> Laurent >> > > I think he is running our of disk space and trying to move it to a partition that has more space. He didn't say that but I think that is the issue at hand. I do suspect that this could cause . . . . issues in the long run. Permissions is a good one to mention. Dale :-) :-)