Grant schreef:
> vmware is telling me I'm low on space for /tmp. My hard drive must be
> filling up and I suspect FEATURES="buildpkg" which has been on for a
> while. What is the best way to find out if those packages are taking
> up all of my space?
Best one I've found is
x11-misc/xdiskusage
Available versions: 1.46 ~1.48
Installed: 1.46
Homepage: http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/
Description: front end to xdu for viewing disk usage
graphically under X11
Very useful program.
>
> What is the best way to clean out the PKGDIR directory? Maybe I
> should delete its entire contents and run quickpkg to build a package
> of everything I have installed? I'm happy with this system as it
> currently is.
Sorry, no idea, but I would think that you could backup the contents to
some removeable media (like a CD or DVD), and *then* delete the
directory-- if you wanted to reinstall any of the packages, you could
just copy the package from the CD to /usr/portage/distfiles. I don't so
much see what's the point of building packages for safekeeping, and then
keeping them on the HDD that might be in danger, anyway.
>
> Also 'man quickpkg' says PKGDIR defaults to /var/tmp/portage-pkg but
> it seems to have defaulted to /var/tmp/portage for me. Should I
> submit a bug?
The PKDIR is set in /etc/make.conf. So maybe you've changed the default
there? Mine looks like this:
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
So my packages will be in /usr/portage/packages . What does yours say?
HTH,
Holly
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