Quick note:  --fetchonly is also useful if for some reason the md5 checksum fails on the source files.

On 9/30/05, Uwe Thiem < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 30 September 2005 06:57, vikram ranade wrote:
> Quick question....
> I looked in the emerge man pages but i cant seem to figure out how to
> download all the packages using emerge and then compile them
> is there some parameter that i can use?
>
>
> emerge <download first parameter> <package>
> ?
> or do i have to mess with the make.conf file?

You are looking for "--fetchonly".

Uwe

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