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lars_the_bear
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 Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 9:50 am Post subject: [Solved] Clean up /var/cache |
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Hi folks
After setting up Gentoo, I see that I have nearly 6Gb of stuff in /var/cache. I tried 'eclean' in various ways, but the amount hasn't reduced much.
I've set up a private binhost, so everything in /var/cache/binpkgs is centralized. The other large consumer is /var/cache/distfiles.
Is any hard likely to be done if I just delete the whole lot?
BR, Lars.
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Yes you can manually delete all of the distfiles if you so desire. eclean was meant to delete only stuff that no longer exists in portage (and thus would be hard to rebuild as you don't have an ebuild that tells portage how to build it).
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 10:41 am Post subject: |
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lars_the_bear,
| Quote: | | everything in /var/cache/binpkgs is centralized. |
The best/safest thing here is which will remove every binary package that does not have an ebuild in the tree.
If you add the --deep option, everything not installed on the host you run it from will be removed. You probably don't want that.
Likewise with .
Should you choose to throw away distfiles entirely, they will be fetched again as required.
That's 'mostly harmless'. Packages will require to be rebuilt if you throw away packages.
| Code: | Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/storage-distfiles 984G 760G 179G 81% /var/cache/distfiles |
I'm a hoarder, that's all my distfiles since June 2006 :)
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lars_the_bear
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
| Code: | Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/storage-distfiles 984G 760G 179G 81% /var/cache/distfiles |
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That's more storage than I have, on the machines I'm running Gentoo on, put together 
BR, Lars. |
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NeddySeagoon
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lars_the_bear,
This is my 'bucket list' PC. :)
The link explains what and why.
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lars_the_bear
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Fair enough. I kind-of got interested in Gentoo so I wouldn't have to buy a bucket-list PC. I've never really bought a computer -- not a modern one, anyway. They've always been supplied by employers or clients. But, all being well, I'll be retiring this year, and all the decent kit will be going back.
I did consider buying one final computer that would see me out, but I wondered whether, with Gentoo and a bit of fiddling, my 2012 Lenovo and Raspberry Pis would do the job. And they positively fly, without all the cruft of a modern Linux desktop. But whether they'll be up to KiCAD, Darktable, etc., I'm not sure.
I guess time will tell.
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Goverp
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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FWIW I always run
| Code: | eclean --deep --time-limit=1m packages
eclean --deep --time-limit=1m distfiles |
before my weekly
| Code: | | emerge --update --... @world |
That way I still have all the files to rebuild what I'm about to update, also anything used in the last month, but no more.
I have "only" 14 GB distfiles (a lot of which is scenery for flightgear) and ~6GB binpkgs.
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