On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:20, Joshua Banks wrote: > 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.
I always use the --fetchonly option to download packages first. For exmaple "emerge --fetchonly shorewall" (this will fetch all the packages required to build shorewall) then: "emerge shorewall" I believe this is your answer no? Brett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
