Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Kirk Schneider
-user] 100% disk full again Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:03:41 -0400 From: Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nick Rout wrote: >O

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:57:10 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > This one (not my original work) I liked: > > http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips I like that one too. None of the scripts I saw dealt with a shared distfiles directory, they deleted all files not used by the machine running the script. M

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Cleaning all distfiles was a decision I made on having high speed > > downloads. Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have > changed > > the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 > number > > of days. Adjust

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:33:06 -0500, Kirk Schneider wrote: > Orginally I was cleaning ccache since my emerge runs under root and > root's home directory is on a small partition. Taking your input > I've decided to just set ccache size and not use my script to clean it. Why not set ccache (I think

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:33:06 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: > Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script > to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. > Adjust the number of days based on your needs. well I sure can't complain about your responsi

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: orrected script, suggest using with >portage-2.0.51. Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
riginal Message ---- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:55:52 +1200 From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 2

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: > > Corrected script, suggest using with >portage-2.0.51. > > Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. > > If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out > the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't th

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
Corrected script, suggest using with >portage-2.0.51. Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files and distfiles, then sync portage. Last line runs emerge to start updating the all the packages. #!/bin/bash # #

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
else /usr/bin/emerge --sync fi /usr/sbin/fixpackages fi /usr/bin/emerge --ask --deep --newuse --update --verbose world -- Kirk Schneider Original Message -------- Subject: ***SPAM(6.5)*** Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:18:06 -0300 From: Franci

Re: ***SPAM(6.5)*** Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
else /usr/bin/emerge --sync fi /usr/sbin/fixpackages fi /usr/bin/emerge --ask --deep --newuse --update --verbose world -- Kirk Schneider Original Message -------- Subject: ***SPAM(6.5)*** Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:18:06 -0300 From: Franci

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread A. Khattri
Speaking of disk space, I noticed the metadata directory under /usr/portage is around 81Mb on one of my servers - is this normal? This means, even with /usr/portage/distfiles being empty, my portage tree is currently 587Mb (I guess the days of it being < 200Mb are long gone heh?). -- -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:18:06 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > >I don't think it could, because it doesn't know which ones you wish to > >keep. I don't know about your reasons, but I use buildpkg so I always > >have a binary of the previous version available, making it easy to > >roll back if a probl

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Francisco Ares
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:00:59 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > > >>And that's a good point: /var/portage gets pretty full of hundreds of >>megs once in a while, and so does /usr/portage/distfiles and (in my >>case) /usr/portage/packages - so how could portage clean up by defa

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:00:59 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > And that's a good point: /var/portage gets pretty full of hundreds of > megs once in a while, and so does /usr/portage/distfiles and (in my > case) /usr/portage/packages - so how could portage clean up by default > the binary packages I

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:50:14 -0400 Eric S. Johansson wrote: > right? wrong? what does a portage cleaner look like? http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips > > --- eric > > -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, > followed by an 'rm -rf /var/tmp/portage' > > I do get one error I'm not sure how to clean. > > getfetchlist(): aux_get() error reading app-text/aspell-0.50.3; aborting. > Failed to get file list for app-text/aspell-0.50.3 > !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r4' not >

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: this is all portage's fault.. ;-) my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I clean up the mess) what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonable set? I

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Francisco Ares
I use a shared NFS /usr/portage/ among 4 computers (a server, 2 desktops and a test machine) and it works fine, just the server needs to sync in the middle of the night, and as I have mostly Pentium3 (server + 2 workstations), the server and my own workstation are setup to build binary packages - t