Ryan Viljoen wrote:
If you do a:
du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles
and a
du -hs /usr/portage
You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the
distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it
downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of
the directory you can go through it and delete older versions of
packages such as:
I have:
zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2
zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2
So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I
think there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent
bothered to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since if
you want to reinstall or add new packages they may require files that
have been already downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth of
redownloading them.
if you use getdelta to fetch updates you can set
REMOVE_OLD=true
in /etc/deltup/getdelta.rc and it will delete old file as above
zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 after successfull make of new version from patches.
More about getdelta on [1]
[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Deltup
Greets
Paweł
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