Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any tips on the use of emerge when emerging with a ppp/dialup connection. Any best practices with a dialup connection to use either help speed up downloads or at a minimum make the emerging process as efficient as possible would be helpful.
Right now I have uncommented ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in make.conf as a suggestion from someone else saying that this would allow me to get more of the dev packages. When I did a "emerege -uD world" I shouldn't of. There are 99 packages that are going to be emerged. I started yesterday and it is now almost 24 hrs. later and I've only downloaded and emerged 30 of those pkgs. So now I see that this is not only downloading and doing a -D "deep" but is compiling as well then going back out to grab the next pkg. Would it be smarter to do an "emerge -uDf world" so that I atleast get the needed sources faster? After doing an "emerge -uDf world" and say I got all 99 files, what would be the next thing I should do? Where are those files kept so that I can view the list and what would be the command to emerge them in the order that they were downloaded? What happens if I've downloaded half of those files and and my internet connection dies? Or I decide that I don't want my ppp connection up for 5 days emerging files and want to disconnect. Is this safe? I live in Washington State so it seems that mirror at Oregon should be fine unless somebody knows of a beefier site in WA state. I did notice that I usually average a 4.2Kb to 4.5Kb transfer rate anytime that I'm downloading off the internet. But for some reason I've been averging 2.5Kb to 3.0Kb rates the last 24hrs when using emerge. Is this because the Oregon site is getting hammered or could this have something to do with the fact that I recompiled my kerenel to add some Netfilter modules? Is there anything that I can do to speed up downloads via ppp or at a minimum make the process as efficient as possible. Thanks for any suggestions. Much appreciated. JBanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
