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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FjL0N-0000Yh-OJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:56:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4PIqLNE028728; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:52:21 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4PIjS3e015898 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:45:29 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so2105776ugd for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 11:45:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Ta0sdLo2AbmANfSHvtsabwZPdUZxUMfaBR3Swq8xY0OQDbCNF9a2Aj9oWk25vwWesfGaWmLeM3r/6b3bXaspDhS/rHbNH9G7OI2FBNZuE02CoeUSJYvHDaWxkRmr+KatDhys5vYtNvnVJDSl7MTSRl/WZqsEmW/qfX/1G1MW7rY= Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr834166ugg; Thu, 25 May 2006 11:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.218.2 with HTTP; Thu, 25 May 2006 11:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:45:28 -0700 From: "Lord Sauron" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow 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; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k4PIjS3e015898 X-Archives-Salt: c2937c7c-25d4-4222-be0a-13d792caa8b4 X-Archives-Hash: 4b021a6ad359db9bb693fcbfe398cff0 I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This has - to the best of my knowledge - all the ebuild headers or whatever for everything. I know I can un-tar this and all, however, I want portage to use it in its uncompressed state, just to speed things up. I'm not burning for hard drive space, so a little more speed would be great. However, I have no idea where to start to try and configure portage to reflect a change like this. I've read the man pages for ebuild and emerge several times over without finding any hints, so I was thinking someone on this list would know. I also think that there's another file, /metadata.tar.bz2, which I think is portage-related. If possible I'd like to uncompress that as well. I think this is the cause of a slow portage because everything takes a long time to start going, then it's just fine. It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration file from my old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked! I didn't even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst! Dang... I got done and said "that was easy." I think I'm really getting the hang of all this! -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list