It is rumored that on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:03:18 +0100 (CET) "Peter S. Mazinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > Most likely, put then in /usr/portage/distfiles (the default location). The key is to have the same name and md5 sum as the files referenced by the ebuilds. HTH -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A professor is one who can speak on any subject -- for precisely fifty minutes. Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
