On Friday 17 March 2006 15:02, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > Good question :) > But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping > cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster > cache update. > There are directions here: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
And if you go back one step you'll find other ways to speed up Portage. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:TIP#Portage_Speed What I do is keep $PORTDIR and $DISTDIR on seperate partitions. Having a small partition for $PORTDIR ensures that all of Portage will be in the same place on the harddrive. $DISTDIR is on a separate partition because otherwise it wouldn't be a small partition. ;) $PKGDIR is not on a separate partition because I don't use it. Also Portage 2.1 (which is not supported by cdb) is nice. :) -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
