Conrad said:- > I've copied David's distfiles into my /usr/portage/distfiles, but when I > emerge a package that I've copied this way, portage wants to download it > anyway. Do I have to update something to make it know that they're there?
Have you done an 'emerge rsync' recently? It is possible that a new file has been added to the portage system and your computer is going to get the new version, or simply that David did not have the precise source file you want in the archive. What it the file you are trying to emerge? Please include the _precise_ ( sorry to be pedantic, but it's important ) path and file name of the .ebuild and the tar.gz files. Otherwise emerge with the full path and name of the .ebuild file you wish to emerge. The two free CDROMs I mentioned on the list as available have gone, but I can cut more. Particular packages could be added, there is about 55 Megs left before the two CDROMs are completely full vis:- 669319168 Jul 5 23:14 /usr/local/isos/AtoK.iso 674136064 Jul 5 23:17 /usr/local/isos/LtoZ.iso These archives hold 653 packages which is about 15% of the total packages available and represents approx 65 - 70 hours of download time with a 56k modem on a good day. The Mozilla sources at 31.1 Mbytes are actually in the AtoK CD otherwise they wouldn't fit in the CD. Install and LiveCD disks available too. KDE, no Gnome applications in these CDROMs. Just the gtk libraries, so GIMP works. $5 per CDROM + postage, or you collect. -- C. S.
