Nick Rout wrote:
portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it
where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it!
What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to
remove path names (i.e.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:58:52 -0300
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it
where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it!
What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to
remove
Nick Rout wrote:
OTOH your approach has problems in that not all files reside on gentoo
mirrors, some reside on sourceforge or other more obscure places.
Yup. I know.
I did it that way because I used to have dialup (I'm on cablemodem now) and
the only places I knew with broadband were using
Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple
and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net
access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and
best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set
it up. Nice!
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800
W.Kenworthy wrote:
Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple
and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net
access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and
best of all, its in potage and
Not a lot: I came in late on the thread.
One thing to investigate is if his ISP keeps a local cache of gentoo as
many of the ones in Oz do - they usually dont charge for local (to the
ISP) traffic. Then unless its openoffice which is a bit big, a
pre-fetch from the ISP at night is a good
Hi all; I was wondering about somethings I got a linux box at work
that I keep always updated; but; I had a dial up connection at home :(
( snip ) !!!
if I copy the portage tree with the distfiles to my home computer I
would be able to make a system update ?
thanks for the atention; Allan
--
yes, provided you are running the same packages and use flags on both
boxes.
I think after copying a new portage tree onto the home machine you
should run
emerge metadata
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:05:54 -0300
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Hi all; I was wondering about somethings I got a linux box
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:05:54PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Hi all; I was wondering about somethings I got a linux box at work
that I keep always updated; but; I had a dial up connection at home :(
( snip ) !!!
if I copy the portage tree with the distfiles to my home computer I
Dave Nebinger wrote:
Unfortunately Allen I don't remember exactly what the script was or
where I got it, but I think there's a reference to it in the Gentoo
Wiki.
It is not that hard actually:
comm -13 (ls /usr/portage/distfiles | sort | uniq) \
(for i in $(emerge -pufv world 21 | grep
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:08:53 -0300
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Dave Nebinger wrote:
Unfortunately Allen I don't remember exactly what the script was or
where I got it, but I think there's a reference to it in the Gentoo
Wiki.
It is not that hard actually:
comm -13 (ls
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