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)

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