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 1EKbYa-0005lw-TU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:01:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SCpMCD026271; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:51:22 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SChDXl018839 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:43:13 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id k1so709808nzf for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:50:25 -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:references; b=oE743uz0BsIUBKEloDtvBHlNR8aYs4SXDBa21AHyYhK98thNBpS+2VO4W4Blbnw1l2qby47dJSNjpseLsiFjplZOviaOP7PDXEO2g8LZFVMfaMqeWxMAypRuh/dEeh54g6yY3YlcUszqOe6ezchvb2AP333ktldithAEQYs7bjc= Received: by 10.37.22.45 with SMTP id z45mr1244281nzi; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.38.7 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:50:24 +0100 From: Ryan Viljoen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree In-Reply-To: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2178_3718435.1127911824940" References: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Archives-Salt: bd52df1e-95bc-4f8b-b6c9-c9ca3cb1956d X-Archives-Hash: bfc0ae6c8e1db6a1ef6731400df815f9 ------=_Part_2178_3718435.1127911824940 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 > > -- "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare a= t you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 ------=_Part_2178_3718435.1127911824940 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 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.

Cheers
Rav


On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <reader@newsg= uy.com> wrote:
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size.&n= bsp; Is this about normal?

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