[ale] gentoo portage question

[Jeff Hubbs]

If you deleted /usr/portage, you'd need to download a portage tree in 
order to emerge anything else.  Since the box isn't a candidate for 
updates as you said, you'd have to download the same tree, which you may 
not be able to do.

What I would suggest you do is rm -Rf /usr/portage/distfiles/* and then 
something like "cd /usr; tar jcf portage.bz2 portage", verify that it 
worked, then "rm -Rf /usr/portage" if you just want to save on disk space. 

Having to drag around a portage tree is one think that makes 
low-footprint Gentoo instances tricky; it's nice if you can export a 
tree from a file server and nfs-mount it.  If you do that with several 
machines, portage actually uses locks to keep everything straight.

- Jeff the Gentooista

David Hamm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a system that runs Gentoo and isn't a candidate for updates.  What kind 
> of bad things would happen if I deleted  /usr/portage/*.  Would it simply 
> re-build on the next run of emerge?  Or could it be re-built using emerge if 
> we needed to backstep.
>
>
> Thanks.
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