On Sunday 07 September 2003 20:35, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Ted Satcher wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm still in the 20th century here in Alabama > > and I don't have a high speed internet connection. > > Can the gentoo distribution realistically be maintained > > with a slow connection? I do have access to a > > high speed connection with a cd burner, but it's > > a 40 minute round trip. Any input from those > > who have tried it? Thanks. > > I do it through a 33.6 dial-up. Most of the time, I just leave the > internet connected overnight. I do a 'emerge sync && emerge -upDf world' > to let it download all the new files. Then in the morning I do 'emerge > -upD world' to see what it wants to install, then 'emerge -uD world'. > The files were already downloaded the night before, so download time > isn't really an issue.
I do it in a similar way with a dial-on demand connection on my firewall. I have a script I run from cron, that sync's and downloads. I've attached the script if you want to use it or if you want an idea of how to do it.
cron-emerge-sync.sh
Description: application/shellscript
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