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Covington, Chris wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently built a new gentoo box and I noticed that the emerge
> --sync is lightning fast compared to an emerge --sync on the older
> boxes, even though both the new and older boxes are up to date and have
> almost identical world files / versions. Is there a way I can delete
> and recreate the portage cache on my older boxes?
The post sync "metadata transfer" (equivalent to `emerge --metadata`) copies
readonly pre-generated cache from ${PORTDIR}/metadata/cache/ to the writable
cache which is stored in /var/cache/edb/dep/${PORTDIR}. You can delete the
whole cache with `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*`. After you've done that, you can
repopulate it with `emerge --metadata` (`emerge --regen` is more time consuming
because it sources all of the ebuilds and eclasses instead of using the
pre-generated cache).
Zac
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