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leonchik1976
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 Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:00 pm Post subject: question about /usr/portage/distfiles |
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hi, everyone, i'm curios, can content of /usr/portage/distfiles be safely deleted?
and also - can i move it to NFS location for to be used for several machines? |
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sabayonino
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Yes it can.
distfiles is the location where the source packages are stored.
you can also manage all packages with
(provided by app-portage/gentoolkit)
see
or
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: question about /usr/portage/distfiles |
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| leonchik1976 wrote: | | hi, everyone, i'm curios, can content of /usr/portage/distfiles be safely deleted? |
Yes, the folder contains only sources of packages you have installed. You can remove manually with rm or use command eclean-dist (gentoolkit).
| leonchik1976 wrote: | | and also - can i move it to NFS location for to be used for several machines? |
I haven't experience with sharing distfiles but a quick search in google I have found this and this
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Syl20
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: question about /usr/portage/distfiles |
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| leonchik1976 wrote: | | can i move it to NFS location for to be used for several machines? |
Yes, you can.
You can also set up a rsync server for /usr/portage on one cumputer, and then all the others could emerge --sync without internet access. |
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depontius
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I used to have a local portage rsync mirror on a server, but that broke with the move to git.
I was also using http_replicator for a while, but that grew increasingly brittle, so last time I had to work around it on my clients, I kind of forgot to set them back.
Instead, this week I set up portage on nfs, except I'm running nfsv4, but that should be minor. As suggested, I have two mount points, read-only for the whole portage tree, and read-write for distfiles. I haven't actually used this setup yet, we'll see how it goes this weekend, when I normally do my "weekend update". (TM - SNL)
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