On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:35:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Except it's not 500MB, as you'll see by looking at the snapshots > > directory on any Gentoo mirror. Of course, the fact that portage > > trees for the last couple of weeks are nicely tarred up on all the > > Gentoo mirrors makes this process pointless anyway :) > > My /usr/portage (without distfiles) is 558,560 blocks of 1k each. I > have no idea what it will .tar.gz down to
33.1MB with bzip2, see http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots/ There's not much point in making your own when this is available :) I have /usr/portage mounted on a sparse file, as per http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#MultiPurpose_Trick That page lists ease of backing up as a benefit, but I've never felt the need to do that. -- Neil Bothwick Windows95: <win-doz-nin-te-fiv> n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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