On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage > because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain > packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that > is it?
You can change PORTAGE_TMPDIR per-package. I have it on a tmpfs and then change it for packages like LO. % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" -- Neil Bothwick ... "I just forgot to increment the counter," Tom said, nonplussed.
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