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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

:-)  :-) 


  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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