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On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 20:48, Rick Hennigan wrote:
> Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage? Cuz uhhh... I
> just did. I know I should have asked first but I'm too impulsive.

I'm a newbie in gentoo arena, but yeah. I believe so. Since
portage/emerge just uses that directory as a scratch pad

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On Saturday 02 October 2004 13:48, Rick Hennigan wrote:
> Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage? Cuz uhhh... I
> just did. I know I should have asked first but I'm too impulsive.

As long as you're not emerging at the same time, yep :)
It's where things are compiled, and installed to, before merging to the live
filesystem.
Sometimes stuff gets left behind, usually as a result of failed compiles, or
merges.

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On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:48, Rick Hennigan wrote:
> Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage? Cuz uhhh... I
> just did. I know I should have asked first but I'm too impulsive.

2.0.51? Yes.

2.0.50? No. You've lost your world file and portage's record of installed
virtuals. Execute /usr/lib/portage/bin/regenworld
and /usr/lib/portage/bin/fixvirtuals to get them back.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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On Saturday 02 October 2004 14:40, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:48, Rick Hennigan wrote:
> > Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage? Cuz uhhh... I
> > just did. I know I should have asked first but I'm too impulsive.
>
> 2.0.51? Yes.
>
> 2.0.50? No. You've lost your world file and portage's record of installed
> virtuals. Execute /usr/lib/portage/bin/regenworld
> and /usr/lib/portage/bin/fixvirtuals to get them back.

I hate to correct a Gentoo dev, but 2.0.50 holds virtual and world info
in /var/cache/edb, not /var/tmp/portage :)

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>
> I hate to correct a Gentoo dev, but 2.0.50 holds virtual and world info
> in /var/cache/edb, not /var/tmp/portage :)
>

So is it completely ok to rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* even in 2.0.50?

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On Saturday 02 October 2004 22:49, Peter Gaži wrote:
> > I hate to correct a Gentoo dev, but 2.0.50 holds virtual and world info
> > in /var/cache/edb, not /var/tmp/portage :)
>
> So is it completely ok to rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* even in 2.0.50?

Yep. I need more sleep. ;)

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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Rick Hennigan wrote:
> Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?

Yes, it is. You shouldn't do so while a emerge is running, though.

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> > Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?
>
> Yes, it is. You shouldn't do so while a emerge is running, though.
>

And how about /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles? If
i'm right, 'distfiles' contains downloaded sources and 'packages'
contains compiled ebuilds, is it safe to completely rm all contents to
gain disk space? I dont need either if i have a good internet
connection, do i?

Thanks for clarification.

Peter

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On Saturday 02 October 2004 15:35, Peter Gaži wrote:
> > > Is it safe to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage?
> >
> > Yes, it is. You shouldn't do so while a emerge is running, though.
>
> And how about /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles? If
> i'm right, 'distfiles' contains downloaded sources and 'packages'
> contains compiled ebuilds, is it safe to completely rm all contents to
> gain disk space? I dont need either if i have a good internet
> connection, do i?
>
> Thanks for clarification.

/usr/portage/packages shouldn't have anything in it, you have to turn on the
feature for building binary packages, but you can indeed delete it's content.
/usr/portage/distfiles can also be deleted whenever you want, but it's
*possible* you'll waste bandwidth later on.

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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:49:49 +0200, Peter Ga__i wrote:

> So is it completely ok to rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* even in 2.0.50?

Yes, it's even safe to rm -rf /var/tmp/portage - I do it in
/etc/conf.d/local.stop to keep things clean.


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