On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > Interesting ... and thanks for the tip. I am concerned about all the > warnings of breakage though. I need this on my server, which is my > production firewall at the moment. I would hate to have this fail. >
A safer way is to update to a newer version of portage. In portage-2.1 the cache update code is rewritten and it is much faster then before (but maybe not as fast as CDB). The biggest reason for the slower update now compared to a year ago, is that the total number of packages in the tree have increased. The old code did not handle this very well. Since this is a server, you probably don't use kde. Excluding all kde split packages from the portage tree will speed things up a lot. Create an rsync exclude file and add RSYNC_EXCLUDE="path_to_file" to your make.conf. Look in man pages for rsync for details. /Andreas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
