[GLLUG] Gentoo Portage Question
Joe Doss
joe at inf7.net
Thu Nov 11 15:24:37 EST 2004
Once you get your system up and going it is safe to remove all of the
files in /usr/portage/distfiles/
However if you have to reemerge anything you will have to download the
package again off the net. It isn't really that big of a deal if you
have broadband and a fast mirror. I normally just remove everything
out of that dir once a month to save space.
For a super fast local mirror use Liquidweb.com's mirror that is
maintained by Steven Collins. The bulk of us Admins at Liquidweb use
Gentoo on our cubes.
Add these lines to your /etc/make.conf file to use the mirror.
SYNC="rsync://gentoo.genfu.org/gentoo-portage"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.genfu.org"
I hope this helps.
~Joe
Joe Doss
http://inf7.net/main/
On Nov 11, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Brian Hoort wrote:
> Ohhhhhhhmmmmmm, most high Gentoo Deities,
>
> I'm a complete G2 noob.
>
> I'm using G2 on a box with a very small HDD. As part of installation
> from Universal CD, I copied the whole portage tree to HDD, hence, it's
> full. I want to delete most if not all of it, since I'm not even
> using the majority of those packages. Is it safe to just:
> # rm /var/portage (I forget path, is that it?)
> or is there some
> # emerge --clearportage
> flag that I can't find anywhere in the docs or man emerge?
>
> Thank You for your most honorable wisdom.
>
>
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