--- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tips: > 1. look for a local mirror - for reliability not speed.
Just look on Google for Gentoo Mirrors in WA state? Or something like that? > 2. if you get the chance, download the required binaries elsewhere and > burn to CD. Copy to /usr/portage/distfiles so they are already present. Didn't think about that. Thanks. > 3. if you have a local rsync service, use that instead. I don't understand this part. "local rsync service". I guess I will need to do some more research on RSYNC. I thought that I used SYNC and that was it? For large files, copy the previous version over to the new name and rsync it. > gains vary wildly, but in some cases can be very worthwhile. Also > corrupted files seem to occur occasionally over http/ftp: rsync fixes > them. However, rsync has an overhead on new files that can be > unacceptable, so I experimented with setting resume to rsync, but it > failed as portage does not seem to use smart URL service allocation. > > 4. there was a "delta" project going, but I havent heard of it for > awhile (just updates differences) > > 5. bandwidth limit the connection, either in rsync or wget: > --limit-rate=4k gives me ~1.5kb for surfing etc. As the rate limiting > is very "chunky", this works well. Rsync can really choke a modem > connection if there is little load on the far end. Are we acutally using Rsync when doing and "emerge sync" or "emerge <pkg name>"?? > 6. use emerge -f to download all required files ahead of time and then > build at once. While this seems like it will take the same time, it > makes supervising the process easier and less troublesome After download the required files with the -f or --fetchonly command where are these files stored so I now which ones I have if I did something like "emerge -utD world" and ended up getting 10 packages all together?? > I have a couple of machines including a laptop that I keep up to date at > work. When I get home, the tar.bzips drain onto my main machine which > nfs (though recently I had to serve via rsync due to network probs - bad > cable somewhere) serve them out to the home network. > > One limitation that I have found is that portage leaves URL > interpretation (http, ftp, rsync) up to the download application. So if > you want to use either rsync, ftp or http, depending on what the mirror > allows, you are out of luck. Don't really understand what your saying here. Again, I guess I will need to research RSYNC and Gentoo. Is this a Gentoo type protocol or is this something thats a known transferring protocol because I've only heard of RSYNC as it relates to Gentoo. Please Correct me on this.. :D Thanks, JBanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
