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Habbit
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 Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: Limiting the DISTDIR size |
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Hello there. I have an oldish box in which disk space is quite much _the_ most valuable asset, even over RAM. I have found that /usr/portage takes up over 1GiB, 800MiB of which are in the /usr/portage/distfiles directory, which is DISTDIR, or the directory where source tarballs are saved to. I investigated the issue in depth and found that it contains sources for all packages I ever installed, including packages that have since been unmerged or replaced by more recent versions. Is there any way to make Portage automatically remove old sources from DISTDIR in order to keep it down to a more manageable size without having to periodically go there myself and wreak havoc with rm?
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jfp
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Habbit,
The answer is:
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zippy linux # equery belongs eclean-dist
[ Searching for file(s) eclean-dist in *... ]
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (/usr/bin/eclean-dist -> eclean)
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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You could delete all of /usr/portage/distfiles after updating world. New sources will be downloaded if they are needed next time you update.
You could also save space by deleting all of /usr/src after you are done compiling the kernel and any external modules (nvidia, etc.)
| Habbit wrote: | | I have an oldish box in which disk space is quite much _the_ most valuable asset, even over RAM. |
Is disk space more valuable than bandwidth too ?
If the answer is no, then disregard the above suggestions.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Habbit,
There are several solutions.
1. The are scripts posted on the forums that do what you want, often with the word "cruft" in their names. I'm not sure if there is a gentoo one or not.
2. If you have another gentoo system, you may use NFS to share one portage tree for all your systems, that includes distfiles.
Be sure to keep /usr/portage/packages separate for different CFLAGS settings.
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Habbit
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Wow, anwer overload  Thank you all guys, I'll test some of them and will be back here soon to report.
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EB FD jmp $-3 |
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