Thanks for the reply everyone. Yes, definetly smarter to include the "-f" flag for Dialup users. Atleast this way I have all the pkgs. local first. I've found that when I use the -D option this causes the compile time of these pkgs. to take allot longer. My only understanding of the -D is what I read in the "man emerge" page. Not really to much of a explanation for someone that is new to Gentooisum's...
So the way that I was doing this before was "emerge -uD world" when dialed-up. With, (example: 44 pkgs. needed in my case) I was now kindof trapped. It would grab the first pkg. compile and would/can take for ever to compile that pkg. Meanwhile my dialup connection has to stay up because from the previous command it's going to try download the next pkg inline after compiling the previous. The other drawback to this is that allot of these packages are huge in size and trying to download email or anything else at the same time proved to be very anoying. Not only that, but some of these pkgs. would take acouple hours to compile and my ISP would kill the modem connection when sitting idle for so long..Thats ofcourse if I wasn't in the room at the time pushing traffic through the ppp interface. After receiving everyones tips I did "emerge -uDf world" and it downloaded all of the needed pkgs. and saved them locally without compiling. I was able to goto bed and have all the needed pkgs waiting for me when I got up. Now the nice thing about this is that I can now "emerge -uD world" and it will grab all the packages locally and compile one after the other without needing to go out to the internet. I can then dialup and not have to worry about my downloading of other things fighting with simultaneous outbound emerge connections trying to download pkgs sense they are already local. Kool with a K. Thanks everyone. JBanks --- "James H. Cloos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joshua> Would it be smarter to do an "emerge -uDf world" so that I > Joshua> atleast get the needed sources faster? > > I always try to do a -f before actual merging. Even then it can take > several hours if you don't do it every day.... > > -JimC > > > -- > [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
