All of the source files are located in /usr/portage/distfiles If you put them there, they should not be downloaded.
You can prefetch the files (or check to see if they are available) with emerge -f <package name> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:03, Peter S. Mazinger wrote: > Hello! > > I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage > installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) > downloading all the sources for building from scratch is not a > solution, but I have some of the (big) sources around, that would be > needed. Is there some place to put these files, so that they won't be > downloaded (if they are the same as on the gentoo mirrors)? Do these files > have to have the same date, or only MD5 checksums have to be correct? > > Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
