Thanks Brett, Yes, this is a helpful tip.
Thanks, JBanks --- Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
