On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:56:07PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sunday 04 September 2005 21:54, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> > Build them on your > > computer and upload the binaries to the server. > > That's much easier said than done because: Right. > > 1. I don't have anything remotely similar to a Debian Sarge environment. I'm > using Mandriva 2006 Beta2 at the moment, and I have no idea how painful it > would be to get dpkg, apt-get, etc. working there. I also have a Kubuntu > system which I could reboot to (even though would rather not), but I was told > Ubuntu also has different version numbers than Debian, etc. > > I can try messing around with a virtualization of some sort (VMWare, > User-Mode-Linux, etc.) but would really rather not to. I am limited in both > diskspace and the available computers here. Only one computer on my home (the > desktop one) runs Linux. If you have the space disk space, you can try using a chroot-ed environment. That's basically all the virtualization you'll need. > > 2. I cannot really effectively upload files using my ADSL connection that has > 10 KBps upstream, which if fully utilizes slows the downstream to a crawl. > I'd rather download and install everything directly from eskimo. Learn to utilize rsync's bandwidth limitation. Or use a program like bwlimit. (Just a general advice, not necessarily related here) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend
