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 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-64391-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HrLKh-0007ep-DK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 21:58:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4OLvfgC010625; Thu, 24 May 2007 21:57:41 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4OLp9if002223 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 24 May 2007 21:51:10 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so143846uge for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:51:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=WPujdY8B8XxsnGpCdiLQte+dHo9b7dfMr11kG1cr3tbmDKf8jOystTixoWXzpNhUIJoWjfkG/tlbjOitkTDe2sDLSK8ueP0hlTF9ZWo9/HOjrEfN1akPCgyrskXMcscXZf2BCcErWheDcvtuUNFez6MEqmpT0fXM1bjPzgeevy4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=mNI9jlwLVNOvp9APL9OXvLbHdL/o0AZ0CpP3GD1WH+NtQqv2NyJoOWFog03ptER92TCHALDGNTGIzALzDQN0/KUMJlOjGe9LkMI6+bzTr3JDtMUrBLIa+qEhKZycpuhXKytl9sXJky1VH2olFeZP+5KrJvdQ3KlFGADbqAfEX5Q= Received: by 10.78.171.13 with SMTP id t13mr672102hue.1180043469257; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.83.20 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <642958cc0705241451r4d4b334br2458cd9f074ced5c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400 From: "Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64 In-Reply-To: <yu9wsyx7vbg.fsf@nyu.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_89749_23243461.1180043469203" References: <yu9wsyx7vbg.fsf@nyu.edu> X-Archives-Salt: c7ae194e-9b1a-4d5a-9b06-4127c324297d X-Archives-Hash: df493ac214afcb6c3244c54e2e4264ab ------=_Part_89749_23243461.1180043469203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/24/07, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote: > > I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. > I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. > > My question concerns sharing some directories between the two > (naturally only one is active at a time). > > In particular can I share > > * distfiles (DISTDIR) > * logs (PORT_LOGDIR) > * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR) > > Thanks, > allan > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because there isn't an amd64 version available). But let me ask you this: are you really that strapped for space to have to share these directories? -- - Mark Shields ------=_Part_89749_23243461.1180043469203 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Allan Gottlieb</b> <<a href="mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu">gottlieb@nyu.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86.<br>I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64.<br><br>My question concerns sharing some directories between the two<br>(naturally only one is active at a time). <br><br>In particular can I share<br><br> * distfiles (DISTDIR)<br> * logs (PORT_LOGDIR)<br> * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR)<br><br>Thanks,<br>allan<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list <br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because there isn't an amd64 version available). But let me ask you this: are you really that strapped for space to have to share these directories? <br>-- <br>- Mark Shields ------=_Part_89749_23243461.1180043469203-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list