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darkshadow
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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:38 am Post subject: /usr/portage question |
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I have a friend who wanted to try Linux so I put Gentoo on his system and it is working awesome but due to hard drive space limitations I was wondering if the sources from /usr/portage could be deleted. since doing a "du -h /usr/portage" gives a 648mb size if would free up a sizeable chunk of space. So is there a command to do this.
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Pythonhead
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If you mean /usr/portage/distfiles, yes. You don't want to delete everything in /usr/portage though.
If you have a partition with free space you can change this location in /etc/make.conf - look for DISTDIR and then move the source files over there, in case he needs them later. |
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daveo
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 6:46 am Post subject: Re: /usr/portage question |
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| darkshadow wrote: | | I have a friend who wanted to try Linux so I put Gentoo on his system and it is working awesome but due to hard drive space limitations I was wondering if the sources from /usr/portage could be deleted. since doing a "du -h /usr/portage" gives a 648mb size if would free up a sizeable chunk of space. So is there a command to do this. |
You can delete the /usr/portage/packages map and the distfiles savely, BUT keep in mind that if you plan to re-install gentoo, you'll need to download all files again within distfiles. As mentioned earlyer you might wanna replace the distfiles, to a networks drive or other partion/disk. Then modify the /etc/make.conf and change the packages and or distfiles location.
Also remember that if you deside to remove the distfiles completly, and you'll need to patch a program, it will download the source first, than patching the source, re-compile it, re-install it and then afterwards remove the old merged package.
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