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 4.54) id 1FTmfI-0001rt-8U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:14:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3CLDl3H010344; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:13:47 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3CL9WO2025298 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:09:33 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so1370970wri for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:09:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mzKTPQYgyK8CURTR1uADr2FOzEi7B1o7npizKVrclPpvTDGqyvV8FZHvis9Wu7zI6mq6feBkVJPocV5Lw0GCEbBSDKcRdw/3EOjG9E5BNHFOaTSinneBTCBvno4Q+j6lp2Xreloz3M6zw3ScMLl5E0SRFvxlPuVoiljKF4LVuNA= Received: by 10.64.210.20 with SMTP id i20mr3179341qbg; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.242.13 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:09:28 -0700 From: "Joshua Schmidlkofer" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage In-Reply-To: <8D0AE50C52974F4AA9971F5C25A0345946479A@murph.madison.local> 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: <8D0AE50C52974F4AA9971F5C25A0345946479A@murph.madison.local> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k3CL9WO2025298 X-Archives-Salt: 1a99ea78-bc31-4e5f-865b-17b99d6703e4 X-Archives-Hash: 9cdbaf9c4eab7464f924859fb6ae65c0 emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that, so do not expect to gain too much. Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can do something akin to this: emerge -c =gentoo-sources-- e.g. To remove all of these kernels linux-2.6.14-r1 linux-2.6.14-r2 linux-2.6.14-r4 linux-2.6.14-r7 linux-2.6.12-r1 linux-2.6.13-r1 emerge -c ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14 \