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ferp2
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 Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject: About /var/tmp/portage |
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I recently tried to emerge openoffice only to have the emerge fail. After some investigation, I found that /var directory, which is on a separate partition, was full. This despite the fact that I had allotted 900M to the partition where /var is located. I did some reading on the discussion forums and found out that you can safely do a
| Code: | | rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* |
as it tends to get filled up with aborted ebuilds. I took a look in /var/tmp/portage and found it full of directories. In fact, when I did
| Code: | | du -s /var/tmp/portage |
I got
| Code: | | 834839 /var/tmp/portage |
in return. To my knowledge I didn't have any aborted ebuilds, except openoffice, so why are all these directories still there.
Thanks,
Mark |
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blubber
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Location: Enschede, Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Emerge unpacks the sources to that directory. AFAIK the sources are not deleted after emerging some package. So this directory tends to fill up very quick. But it is indeed safe to delete it's contents.
Edit: after close inspection  I must conclude that emerge does delete the sources of compiled packages, and therefor your /var/tmp/portage dir shouldn't be so large. I sugest you delete it, and check every now and then if it fills up again.
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osiris temp # du -s /var/tmp/portage
15552 /var/tmp/portage
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ferp2
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the reply. Like you said, once the emerge has successfully completed, the sources that have been unpacked to /var/tmp/portage are removed. In my case, they weren't for reasons unknown. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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