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 1LmRmU-0001dX-Qx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EEE0E05DF; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 42.mail-out.ovh.net (42.mail-out.ovh.net [213.251.189.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE259E05DF for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11571 invoked by uid 503); 25 Mar 2009 12:00:23 -0000 Received: from gw2.ovh.net (HELO mail242.ha.ovh.net) (213.251.189.202) by 42.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:00:23 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:00:21 -0000 Received: from a81-84-103-93.cpe.netcabo.pt (HELO ?192.168.0.102?) (laurent@logiquefloue.org@81.84.103.93) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 12:00:19 -0000 Message-ID: <49CA1CCF.4020505@logiquefloue.org> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:15 +0100 From: laurent User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) 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> <49C9EBF9.1000806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49C9EBF9.1000806@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 2077003853227655768 X-Ovh-Remote: 81.84.103.93 (a81-84-103-93.cpe.netcabo.pt) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 09dd5158-9192-4337-9727-e66aa674277a X-Archives-Hash: 95583c474cc4e5de5a1f34fb0366888e Dale a =E9crit : > Alan McKinnon wrote: > =20 >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: >> =20 >> =20 >>> 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. >>> =20 >>> =20 >> eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit >> >> =20 >> =20 >>> 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 some= where? >>> =20 >>> =20 >> 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 por= tage and=20 >> it's in your home directory owned by you. >> >> Rather leave distfiles where it is, and create a symlink in ~ that poi= nts to=20 >> distfiles. I can't imagine how your scheme would benefit you in any wa= y. >> >> =20 >> =20 >>> I should do both solution. >>> >>> thank you >>> Laurent >>> =20 >>> =20 >> =20 >> =20 > > 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.=20 > Permissions is a good one to mention. > > Dale > > :-) :-)=20 > > > > =20 yes it's exactly that, I did not choose the install partitionning. So I=20 moved portage, www and now disfiles from /var to /home/var. For the other ones I did add a symlink also. Should I do that for=20 disfiles? What do you mean by permissions issues ?? Another question about emerge -v world, I go a empty manifest on layman.=20 What should I do to fix that ? Thanks! Laurent