On 3/17/06, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these > > days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133. > > > > >>> Updating Portage cache: 50% > > > > Just trying to do a sync .... > > Good question :) > But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping > cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster > cache update. > There are directions here: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb >
New versions of portage are using a different approuch on metadata and cache, after sync'ng, a week later it took like 1 minute to update the cache with the new version. My advice, update portage, "emerge --metadata", wait for it to finish (yes, will take a LOT of time, your machine is below 1GHz, wich will slow it even more), but in the end, you'll update much faster. CDB is just a workaround and you can't use it with the most recent version of portage. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
