Well, some patches are stored in /usr/portage/distfiles. Others are in
/usr/portage/<group>/<pkg>/files/. I think the ones in the files/
directory are those created by the Gentoo developers.
Does anyone know if there is an official way to clean the distfiles
directory of old sources. So far, the best I have is:
mount / -o remount,atime
emerge --fetchonly --emptytree world
find /usr/portage/distfiles -atime +1 -exec rm -v {} \;
mount / -o remount,noatime
-Richard
Steven Susbauer wrote:
> The archived sources (afaik) for installed (and probably downloaded
> sources as well) programs are stored in /usr/portage/distfiles. This
> includes all patches to the application as well.
>
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
>> This is a question from somebody who is just testing the water with
>> the gentoo distribution.. probably basic, but I couldn't see the answer
>> in the documentation or faq so...
>>
>> First some background - I am a long time user of the BSD/OS flavour of
>> BSD Unix (since the days when Minix was the only open source *nix),
>> and over the last 2-3 years have dabbled with Red Hat and SuSE Linux
>> distributions because of the better hardware support and availability
>> of 3rd party software like vmware...
>>
>> However I was not keen on the Microsoft style GUI based system install
>> and administration used in both distros, which seemed to assume that
>> the packager knew best, and the user doesn't need to understand what
>> is going on 'under the hood'.
>>
>> I also missed my readily available sourcode on my BSD system. The Linux
>> distros did not default to loading the source onto the disk, and when
>> sources were installed, I did not find it simple or intuitive to locate
>> them and know how to rebuild my binaries from them.
>>
>> On my BSD system, if I wanted to find the source for /usr/bin/foo, I
>> knew
>> I could just 'cd /usr/src/usr.bin/foo' and that was the directory
>> containing
>> the source. To rebuild everything related to that application, I just
>> typed 'make' in that directory...
>>
>> I liked what I had heard about gentoo being built from source, implying
>> that the source for every binary on the system should be accessible.
>>
>> However after going through the install process, the only sources
>> which I
>> can find in an expected place are the kernel sources.
>>
>> So the question is, how to I go about making sure that the sources that
>> my system is built from reside on my disk, and how do I find them?
>> I really want to be able to access the source whenever I want (it is
>> the only way I find to work around the often incomplete documentation on
>> Linux systems) not just when I have an Internet connection
>> available.....
>>
>> After all, the only reason I really want to sit around and wait for a
>> compile and build everytime I install a new package is so that I can
>> be sure that the binary I am running corresponds to the source that
>> I have.
>>
>> Regards,
>> DigbyT
>
>
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