Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:32 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv glibc
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 [2.3.4.20041102-r1] -build -debug
> > -erandom -hardened (-multilib) +nls +nptl +nptlonly -pic (-selinux)
> > -userlocales 0 kB
> 
> Try setting userlocales and putting the locales you want
> in /etc/locales.build. that should reduce the space requirements quite a
> bit.

Thanks, I'll check the out.

> 
> > There's probably a config option for where this work is done somewhere
> > else. What would I change to temporarily move the elsewhere if indeed
> > there is no bug.
> 
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage.

I set this in make.conf, correct? Seems logical but man emerge and man
portage don't seem to mention this variable.

Thanks very much,
Mark

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