On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:23, you wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 11:25, you wrote: > > > >[ ... ] > > > >>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.
Try it and see. I'd love to know the answer. -- C. S.
