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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:50:24 +0100
From: Ryan Viljoen <ravilj@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree
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If you do a:
du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles
and a
du -hs /usr/portage
You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the distfiles.
This is where emerge stores all the packages that it downloads when
installing them on your system. To decrease the size of the directory you
can go through it and delete older versions of packages such as:
I have:
zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2
zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2
So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I thin=
k
there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent bothered
to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since if you want to
reinstall or add new packages they may require files that have been already
downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth of redownloading them.
Cheers
Rav
On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
> size. Is this about normal?
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus
Torvalds, 1995
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If you do a:<br>
du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles<br>
and a <br>
du -hs /usr/portage<br>
<br>
You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the
distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it
downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of
the directory you can go through it and delete older versions of
packages such as:<br>
<br>
I have:<br>
zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2<br>
zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2<br>
<br>
So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I
think there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent
bothered to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since
if you want to reinstall or add new packages they may require files
that have been already downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth
of redownloading them.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Rav<br>
<br>
<br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 9/28/05, <b class=3D"gmail_senderna=
me">Harry Putnam</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:reader@newsguy.com">reader@newsg=
uy.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"bord=
er-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-l=
eft: 1ex;">
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in<br>size.&n=
bsp; Is this about normal?<br><br>--<br><a href=3D"mailto:gentoo-user@=
gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></d=
iv><br><br clear=3D"all">
<br>-- <br>"When
you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just sta=
re at
you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free".=
-
Linus Torvalds, 1995
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