On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 11:25, you wrote:
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a big thanks also from me! It really was fun on Saturday and I've
learned a lot. Unfortunately I couldn't make it on Sunday, because my
box was compiling KDE until late in the afternoon (and it works :)! ).
David, could you let me know sometime when you are at OSTC that I can
come and emerge -f openoffice, mozilla and evolution? I also wondered if
it is possible to specify something like "file://..." as GENTOO_MIRROR
in make.conf. Does anybody know?
If you copy the required file(s) into the /usr/portage/distfiles directory, this has the same effect.
-- C. S.
I rather thought about a CD/DVD with all the packages I normally use. If there was also a portage tree on the CD/DVD, it would be consistent in itself. For installing Gentoo on a dial-up box you'd simply specify the respective directories as mirrors and could get your system running without a network connection at all. At least that's what I had in mind.
Cheers, Conrad.
