On Sunday 07 December 2003 14:44, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > 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.
Oops, I've just noticed that I should read the questions properly before posting. Sorry. Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
