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ronni
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:14 am    Post subject: portage size / feature request Reply with quote

My question is:
Is there a way to minimize the portage size you download?
Problem:
Code:
# du -s /usr/portage --exclude distfiles
213684 /usr/portage

and only ~500 MB hd :(

What I want is that you don't have to download the whole tree, but be able to specify what to sync.
Eg.:
PORTAGE_SUBSCRIBE="sys-build"
so that it only downloads the ebuilds for the base system.
Then you could have "all" "sys-libs ...".
Take a look at:
Code:
# du -s /usr/portage/*-* | sort -n

and you can maybe see my point.

Ronni

PS: I need telnet to set up my adsl-modem before I can get net - could it be included on the live-cd?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like you're searching for RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM in make.conf. I've not tested this myself, but the description in make.conf sounds what you're searching for. In case you've stripped down your make.conf here is the description:
Quote:
# RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM is a file that portage will pass to rsync when it updates
# the portage tree. Specific chucks of the tree may be excluded from
# consideration. This may cause dependency failures if you are not careful.
# The file format is one pattern per line, blanks and ';' or '#' lines are
# comments. See 'man rsync' for more details on the exclude-from format.
#RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes
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