Thanks all for the replies, I'll have a look at getdelta, I was more after something like where for Debian you can get the 12CD/4DVD set and just apt-get the packages locally.
re Nick, just get a whole lot of binary packages on CD/DVD is what im after. Cheers Justin Kelly > Nick Rout ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >you are mixing two issues here - do you want to download sources faster >and still compile them yourself, or just get binary packages? On 9/4/05, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02 September 2005 23:44, Fernando Canizo wrote: > > El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to > > > difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is > > > there anything like the Packages CD but more :) > > > > > > Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I > > > don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD. > > > > No, don't know, but in the meantime you can use 'getdelta' (emerge > > getdelta). I know a couple of dialup users that were very satisfied > > with this. > > I concur. It usually speeds things up. > > Uwe > > -- > 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software > developers. - Linus Torvalds > > http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
