Bug 9858

Summary:	emerge -e world uses huge amounts of unnecissary disk space
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Sean P. Kane <spkane>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	carpaski
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sean P. Kane 2002-10-28 18:40:47 UTC

Near the very end of an upgrade to Gentoo 1.4_rc1 I needed to do an: "emerge -e 
world" This command very quickly fills up /usr/portage/distfiles 
and /var/tmp/portage.

I have 2GB of freee space, yet it is still not enough, and if this fails, you 
have to start all over again.

There should be a way to tell emerge to emtpy these directories ( --cleandist --
cleantmp ) after it finishes with each package. It seems to only do this at the 
end of the whole emerge command currently. This way it would emerge bash, clean 
those files, and then emerge X11, clean those files, etc., etc.

This would make such a large emerge even possible on machines with limited 
drive space. I however, ended up giving up and just finally doing the install 
from scratch (after two unanswered messages to gentoo-dev )

Thanks,
Sean

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 13:40:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2567 ***