On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:51:48 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote > Tomasz Lutelmowski wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Here is one-liner which can be helpful if you want to trim down your gentoo > > installation, particulary /usr/portage directory and/or lower emerge > > --sync times / save bandwidth (requires app-portage/portage-utils): > > > > (echo -e "+ profiles**\n+ eclass**\n+ metadata*\n+ metadata/cache*\n+ > > metadata/dtd**\n+ metadata/glsa**\n+ metadata/news**\n+ scripts**"; for > > f in `qlist -IC | cut -f1 -d'/' | sort | uniq | sort`; do echo "+ $f**"; > > echo "+ metadata/cache/$f**"; done; echo "- */") > > > /etc/portage/rsync_excludes > > > > you need also to add this line to make.conf > > > > PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" > > This is a bit short-sighted. Using this doesn't allow you to install > any additional packages (unless the package and its dependencies > happen to be in the category of a package you already have installed) > and will break dep resolution when the dependencies change for any > packages that you currently have installed.
This is true, anyway I'm using it on all production servers with stable and final set of packages. -- [email protected] mailing list
