From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuZ9V-0008ED-6v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:11:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IH9W46031459; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:09:32 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IH4xAi021997 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:05:00 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s18so920312nze for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SPNz4e+D9UNqdlW5bCfvvyUp78AtEw+nB8SlwNLBGLlEE6U5nhuHe7GLaCXhAO659cUfB3Co1ofM+e5Uzq9bfbNMA99MIhmTgnqgIfideou04VzAZOPWN+VY4sobczAPpIaQALuMqur/pu/twW4FHfiua9ZgUCeOlAnoCWDRBK4= Received: by 10.36.147.2 with SMTP id u2mr4160673nzd; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.57.9 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0507181005feffd76@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var In-Reply-To: <20050718171305.3704cfe4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b050718083667558c93@mail.gmail.com> <20050718171305.3704cfe4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6IH4xAi021997 X-Archives-Salt: 605dd75a-db57-4133-b73b-a7bff7781072 X-Archives-Hash: 3684478194eae789fb969e260b355be5 On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list