Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 11:27:39 BST Dale wrote: >> R0b0t1 wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>>> Sounds like a bug. >>>>> All fetch restriction packages I encounter want it in your distfiles >>>>> folder. (Wherever you configured it to be) >>>>> >>>>> I haven't really read the text on these myself lately, so not sure if >>>>> other packages have the same, but I didn't notice any path other than >>>>> my distfiles dir. >>>>> >>>>> Most common one I have is the citrix 'icaclient'. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Joost >>>> Picking random post to reply to so anyone can respond to this question. >>>> I recall years ago there was talk of moving distfiles and such to a >>>> directory in /var on new installs at least. At the time, I moved mine >>>> to /var/cache/portage. I seem to recall that another location ended up >>>> being picked. Does anyone recall if the move ever did occur and if so, >>>> where it went? I recall reading about it but can't recall what was >>>> final on it or if it ended up being moved at all. >>> Do you mean /usr/portage/distfiles? >>> >>> Can we stop using Oracle's JVM? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> R0b0t1 >> I think that is where they were talking about moving it from. At one >> point, they were discussing putting it in /var somewhere. Maybe they >> decided not to move it at all. I seem to recall there being a quite >> active and lengthy thread about it on -dev but that was years ago. I >> don't think my archives go back that far. >> >> Oh well. I was just curious. Mine is in /var/cache/portage/. At the >> time, that I think had the most support. Either way, it works for me >> and it can be put pretty much anywhere sensible. > Especially if you have separate partitions, as I do. Portage, packages and > distfiles can be mounted anywhere with simple changes to fstab and make.conf. > That makes the debates over what should live where somewhat moot. >
Exactly. At some point I needed to move it because packages was taking up a lot of drive space. I don't think I was using LVM back then. I did have a good size /var partition tho so it fit nicely there. I keep binaries of everything just in case something bad happens and I need to go back quickly or easily or both. Thing is, some of those are pretty large and tend to get larger with each upgrade. Once a partition gets to about 80% or so full, I start making plans to make them larger. I used to have to boot a DVD/USB stick and have a spare hard drive to do that but LVM makes that easier. Everyone doesn't have that option tho. Sometimes I wish I had elephant memory but then again, I may not like that either. :/ Dale :-) :-)
