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MasquedAvenger Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 559 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: /var/tmp/portage: important? |
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Hey everyone. I was just wondering if it would be ok for me to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage or if I should leave it. Thanks in advance.
James _________________ "There are no uninteresting things; only uninterested people." --G.K. Chesterton |
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d9f61 n00b
Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 13 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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In this I read it's safe to do so . |
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John5788 Advocate
Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 2140 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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u can delete the contents, thats just the space portage uses to compile _________________ John5788 |
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d9f61 n00b
Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 13 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Ofcourse, rming the contents of /var/tmp/portage wont be such a good idea when you're in the middle of an emerge . |
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MasquedAvenger Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 559 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well I'm glad I can do this because I have lots and lots of stuff there... Thanks for the help
James _________________ "There are no uninteresting things; only uninterested people." --G.K. Chesterton |
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John5788 Advocate
Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 2140 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:11 am Post subject: |
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d9f61 wrote: | Ofcourse, rming the contents of /var/tmp/portage wont be such a good idea when you're in the middle of an emerge . |
ill add that to my list of stupid things to try
one of the things i currently want to try is to install gentoo onto a fat partition. i dont know if it will work, but if it does, i want to see how it performs haha _________________ John5788 |
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