On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:44, Tim Carey-Smith wrote: > Hello CLUG, > > i have just installed gentoo. > and i love it. Nice isn't it.
> now one of my friends wants to install it. > is there a way to use my /usr/portage/distfiles/* so he > doesn't have to download all that stuff all over again? Sure, just copy the contents of your /usr/portage/distfiles/ into his. You could do this by any of the normal ways of moving files around or by setting up a rsync server on your machine and have it as the first in the list of servers like so:- SYNC=rsync://your.machine/gentoo rsync://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo-portage and so on ... Line 197 /etc/make.conf Also, please note that I have about 2.6G of files in /usr/portage/distfiles . Some of them will not be the 'latest and greatest' but I could have a purge of the older stuff and make set of CDs, I think the normal rate is $5.00 per disc. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
