On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Matthew Cline wrote: > > # mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles.old > > # mkdir -p /etc/portage > > # echo local /usr/portage/distfiles.old > /etc/portage/mirrors > > # emerge -ef world > > # rm /etc/portage/mirrors > > # rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles.old > > > > I think my mind might not be working this early in the morning, but > what exactly is the purpose of this procedure?
Looks like you setup a local mirror with your tarballs in it then emerge -ef (where -e means "reinstall everything in world and their dependencies" and -f means "just fetch the tarballs"), and then you remove the local repository and the old tarballs directory (since you've just fetched everything you need to build world into /etc/portage/distfiles). So basically you're pruning out old stuff that is not needed from /etc/portage/distfiles. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
