I use a combination of the suggested on my Servers. I use a a NFS mounted portdir, and my exclude list is just a lit of all the KDE-*, gnome-*, xfce-*, and x11-*.
I don't use X so it seems to work pretty well, and it still keeps the re-cache time to a minimal. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomasz Lutelmowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 8:43:47 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] trim down portage directory Tomasz Lutelmowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-04-08 15:07: > 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. I agree. Why not just use an NFS mounted PORTDIR? -- Ryan Gibbons 817.657.1780 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
