From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 06:02:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a674c1f-d77d-ef39-e3ab-72bf74346c89@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26272972.VHF8g2ltU4@peak>
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 11:27:39 BST Dale wrote:
>> R0b0t1 wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>>> Sounds like a bug.
>>>>> All fetch restriction packages I encounter want it in your distfiles
>>>>> folder. (Wherever you configured it to be)
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't really read the text on these myself lately, so not sure if
>>>>> other packages have the same, but I didn't notice any path other than
>>>>> my distfiles dir.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most common one I have is the citrix 'icaclient'.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Joost
>>>> Picking random post to reply to so anyone can respond to this question.
>>>> I recall years ago there was talk of moving distfiles and such to a
>>>> directory in /var on new installs at least. At the time, I moved mine
>>>> to /var/cache/portage. I seem to recall that another location ended up
>>>> being picked. Does anyone recall if the move ever did occur and if so,
>>>> where it went? I recall reading about it but can't recall what was
>>>> final on it or if it ended up being moved at all.
>>> Do you mean /usr/portage/distfiles?
>>>
>>> Can we stop using Oracle's JVM?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> R0b0t1
>> I think that is where they were talking about moving it from. At one
>> point, they were discussing putting it in /var somewhere. Maybe they
>> decided not to move it at all. I seem to recall there being a quite
>> active and lengthy thread about it on -dev but that was years ago. I
>> don't think my archives go back that far.
>>
>> Oh well. I was just curious. Mine is in /var/cache/portage/. At the
>> time, that I think had the most support. Either way, it works for me
>> and it can be put pretty much anywhere sensible.
> Especially if you have separate partitions, as I do. Portage, packages and
> distfiles can be mounted anywhere with simple changes to fstab and make.conf.
> That makes the debates over what should live where somewhat moot.
>
Exactly. At some point I needed to move it because packages was taking
up a lot of drive space. I don't think I was using LVM back then. I
did have a good size /var partition tho so it fit nicely there. I keep
binaries of everything just in case something bad happens and I need to
go back quickly or easily or both. Thing is, some of those are pretty
large and tend to get larger with each upgrade. Once a partition gets
to about 80% or so full, I start making plans to make them larger. I
used to have to boot a DVD/USB stick and have a spare hard drive to do
that but LVM makes that easier. Everyone doesn't have that option tho.
Sometimes I wish I had elephant memory but then again, I may not like
that either. :/
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-11 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 20:23 [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-10 20:55 ` Dale
2018-04-10 22:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-11 0:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2018-04-11 3:22 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2018-04-11 4:08 ` Dale
2018-04-11 6:08 ` R0b0t1
2018-04-11 10:27 ` Dale
2018-04-11 10:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-11 11:02 ` Dale [this message]
2018-04-11 13:15 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-04-11 13:25 ` Dale
2018-04-12 16:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
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