On Thursday 01 December 2005 03:17, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Use rsync. I am not sure how much gain there is to be had but try using > an older version as the seed file - should save at least a little. > Creative use of head/tail with seed files and already downloaded > portions can save a lot if the link drops out halfway. > > Make sure you use the -P option (read "man rsync") e.g. "rsync -Pv > --stats --bwlimit=2 filename ." wget has a similar option. BB (Before > Broadband!) I set this for both wget and rsync in /etc/make.conf. wget > will usually download faster on high quality connections than rsync, but > overall, if you have a seed file, rsync wins hands down. > > The bandwidth option is useful if you still want to use the link whilst > downloading. Both rsync and wget request chunks of the file, then wait > an amount of time before getting the next chunk. This averages out to > the required throughput, but some apps did not deal with this very well > (p[arrallel scp downloads slowed to a crawl for instance, leaving a > large part of the available bw unused. > > Best bet in this case is to try and find a local person with broadband > who will download and burn to cd for you. I used to use a modem for > gentoo for a few years and know what you are up against - but I think > its worse for the binary distros as I found I was downloading whole CD's > on a regular basis - and thats a whole lot worse than OO! > > BillK >
good option for slow networks is getdelta.sh described in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=215262 saves something like 90%, especially good with big distfiles martins -- Linux 2.6.15-rc2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 04:25:24 up 13:37, 6 users, load average: 0.18, 0.23, 0.78 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
