Hi,
You could use GRP which as far as i understand it is pre compiled binaries
to get your system up and running then use a emerge -uf world at school to
fetch the packages you require and then do a emerge -u world at home and let
it compile over night ? this might ease your troubles with the rtc
connection at home. As for compiling times thats all dependant on many
things and as such i dont think anyone would be able to give you an accurate
figure or more than a guesstimation.
Also dont forget to read the gentoo desktop howto at :
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml
as well as the gentoo install howto :
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
Also dont forget to get the CD with GRP on :)
{P}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Rubiolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:59 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Figures about gentoo compilation -- rtc connection
| Hello to you all,
|
| I am relatively new to the list so please point me to the good location if
this
| question has already been asked (according to the list archives I found on
| http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40gentoo.org/, it hasn't)
|
| I am very interested about installing gentoo on my system : I am can't
wait for
| a distro manager to update his rpms for a new software to be available on
ly
| machine. I always end up downloading the sources and then breaking the
package
| management system. Portage seems very interesting for me in that way. I
also
| like the fact that it is similar to the process of LFS (which is for me to
much
| of a hassle because of the lack of automation and dependancy checking).
|
| The fact is that I only have an rtc connection at home. While I cannot
afford to
| install gentoo that way, I have access to a broadband connection available
at my
| school.
|
| My questions are
| 1.Is it possible to do some kind of 'emerge bootstrap --pretend' for the
_WHOLE_
| gentoo installation ?
| I'd like to be able to download all the sources needed at school, burn
them to a
| few CD's and then let my isolated machine compile during a few days. I
would
| then upgrade my system the usual way with my rtc connection (I can bear up
to
| around 10-20megs sources dl).
|
| 2. Could someone provide some figures about compilation time to compare
with my
| machine? I have a 566Mhz Celeron but a bunch of RAM (312Mb) so I would be
| interested in the time taken to perform such compilation. How about the
size of
| the sources as well (multimedia desktop Linux using GNOME).
|
| 3.Short (and last) one: are the ebuilds introducing any dependancy on the
| availability of new software (e.g. are the ebuilds of one version (eg
GNOME2.2)
| usable for another one (GNOME2.4))?
|
| Thank you very much for your consideration,
|
| Regards,
|
| Vincent
|
|
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| Vincent Rubiolo
| 4th Year Student At The School Of Engineering
| Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France)
| http://www.emn.fr
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