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arcee
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 Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:37 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] How can I change temp installation folder? |
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Hi! I have Gentoo installed on a 7 GB partition of my hard disk. Currently I have 1.6 GB free space left and I want to install a big package that requires more than 6 GB of space during the installation. So what I want is to specify a different temporary folder from /var/tmp/portage for the package to use. How can I do that? Thanks!
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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I would mount the larger partition to someplace and symlink /var/tmp/portage to where you need it, like this:
| Code: | mount /dev/sdx /mnt/bigdrive
rm -rf /var/tmp/portage
ln -s /mnt/bigdrive /var/tmp/portage
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When you are done I believe you can just delete the symlink, and on the next emerge portage will recreate /var/tmp/portage. |
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rh1
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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You could temporarly add:
| Code: | | PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/path/to/dir" |
to /etc/make.conf
You might also just be able to do this for one time use though i haven't tested it it:
| Code: | | PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/path/to/dir" emerge package_name |
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arcee
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Using a symlink returned error when I tried to compile: Access denied... Don't know why, but specifying another temp directory in make.conf worked. Thank you both  |
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