On 2/26/20 7:08 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
Hi,
��� due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a
network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine.� However,
being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very
slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even
slower to the point of not always being practical
Is there a way to localise/speedup portage scanning parts of the
update/install process?
A simpler, much less sophisticated update, what I do is
use emerge -f option to 'fetch only' option first. The selectively
update; or you can use a usb-3.1+ device for fast easy upgrades, due to
laptop limitations, but the communications data channel limitations
leave you at the mercy of the available wireless bandwidth characteristics.
Unlocked cell phones will (theoretically) allow you to
temporarily-dynamically switch to another provider (carrier) for faster
wireless bandwidth. It's baked into most of the 5G chipsets, and can
even work with 4G channels.
Many (stupid) carriers are fighting against giving to the citizens, the
right to dynamically use a variety of services, and control your
software stack on cell phones. Anti-competitive. Multi-homed bandwidth,
for mobile needs (cell or lappy) is coming, but corruption in
governments and companies is hindering what has already been 'designed
in' to how Rf (wireless) bandwidth is articulated.
Most regulators, are mentally 'arcane' thus technologist suffer.......
1. put it on a squashfs share to save space (the laptop is running btrfs
with compression so I don't think that will get me much)
2. put portage on an sd card and mount it when necessary
The laptop is a Surface Pro4 so expanding the storage is not practical -
though I could shrink the windows partition a little more.
Maybe a usb-splitter would help? (no usb ports?)
BillK
hth,
James
