Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 May 2007 02:57:31 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: In my years of gentoo, -D always caused problems and was almost never worth the trouble. It's not caused me such problems, but it is an option, so you opt to not use it and I'll opt to use it and we'll both be happy :) -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 May 2007 02:21:51 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before moving on from there. Err.. what was the purpose of that `emerge -e world` ? To rebuild the system

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 07:01 +0200, Naga wrote: According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ distfiles. hm, it has been a while since I last read the handbook. There were a small number of files to rsync back then :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Naga
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:39:55 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 07:01 +0200, Naga wrote: According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ distfiles. Found it :) A-How much space does a distfiles mirror need? B-58G B-well, that's what it needs

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? dunno, but huge. Would it be possible to draw down

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question On Dienstag, 22. Mai

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question snip That would also let me make sure that I have an up to date portage

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:13:11 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question snip

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:13:11 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The next

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:42:38 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you'll need much processing power to parallel-fetch. I do it on every computer with a fast enough internet connection. The real limit is disk and network for downloading, not at all processor. I think RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:30:44 Naga wrote: B-well, that's what it needs actually, probably in the docs it has it specified http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:34:16 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:27 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question Not to mention you will spend much longer waiting for everything to download

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:13:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not to rsync your portage tree more than once a day.  For the average distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient to keep up with the packages in the main

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch the FAQ's and

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before moving on from there. After that, I can just

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:58 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Dale wrote: Funny, I sync every few days or so and always do a emerge -uvD world. I have less problems with that than just doing a -u world. Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going well and are you doing revdep-rebuilt

[gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? Would it be possible to draw down the whole archive all in one shot using wget or similar, dump it all

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:06 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? all of the distfiles? about 7 or 8 Gb I

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:30 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:06 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Naga
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 06:06:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? Would it be possible to draw down the whole

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Naga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question snip According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Dale
Naga wrote: According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ distfiles. Holy smoke. O_O That's a lot of stuff. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.