On Monday 08 December 2003 01:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It takes so much time to sync the tree here... > because i have a slow (modem) connection. > can i use portage-2003xxyy.tar.bz2 files downloaded in another place? > how can i do this? > just extract the file to /usr/portage...? > could i overwrite a old one with a new one? > thanks..
Before portage downloads a file it first looks into /usr/portage/distfiles if it isn't already there. Hence, you can download them somewhere else and then just copy them to /usr/portage/distfiles. Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
