On 16/09/2014 22:23, Joseph wrote:
> On 09/16/14 19:58, James wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Folks that work on precise computer problems are often "raw" with
>> one another. "Sarcasm" is an ointment that soothes the pain
>> of running Gentoo. Verbal abuse develops "thick skin" and most
>> here on Gentoo User have "thick skin", imho. Devs on this
>> list often question the gentoo-user base to ferret out if they
>> need to modify docs, codes or semantics at Gentoo, or if the user
>> needs. Sometime it does resemble a court room.
>>
>> "Alan's school of admin abuse" type of treatment to motivate
>> an excellent user base is not uncommon.
>>
>> That said, the amount of questions and bandwidth you have incurred
>> on this group, does warrant administrative incursion into you
>> admin policies, imho. Maybe, just maybe, folks actually care
>> that you are wisely successful with Gentoo?
>>
>> For example since you are distributing, you really need to keep
>> binaries packages on at least one system. I nuked python, some
>> years ago. It was only the files on another similar system that
>> prevent me form a new installation of the system.
>>
>> Besides, I rather think you are being "groomed" to become a gentoo
>> dev, so you can abuse the rest of of (gentoo users) commoners?
>>
>>
>> hth,
>> James
>
> Thank for suggestions, yes I usually keep the binaries for as long as I
> have enough room on "/" :-)
> If I'm short on space I periodically nuke them. I've manged to keep the
> system going for the last 10-years
> and keep my own help-file.txt (notes) how to solve certain problem (but
> not all :-/)
>
> I sometime clean the distribution files with this command (I'm sure
> there might be a better way).
> -----------------
> cd /usr/portage/distfiles
>
> and run this command:
> (emerge -epf world 2>&1 | perl -ne '$f=join("\n",
> m@\w://[^\s]+/([^\s]+)@g); print "$f\n" if $f' | sort -u; ls -f) | sort
> | uniq -c | perl -ane 'print "$F[1]\n" if $F[0]==1 && -f $F[1]' | xargs
> rm -f
eclean (in package gentoolkit)
> ------------------
>
> Regarding keeping the binaries, I'll need to learn how to install
> compiled binaries from another box. Never, had a chance to do it yet.
scp/rsync/whatever from one source to $PKGDIR on dest then
emerge -k (or -K depending if you want to fall back to regular compile
from source or not)
or, nfs mount $PKGDIR on the source to $PKGDIR on the dest machine and
you don't have to scp/rysnc
--
Alan McKinnon
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