Chris and I will both have up to date portage trees and a lot of the stuff in distfiles (ie the sometimes large source files)
Chris is your box set up so another box can rsync to it? On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:21:10 +1200 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:40, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > >>>>I can bring "Beast" if you want. What would you like it for? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>A distcc demo. We have 2 half built Gentoo boxes to finish off and I just > >>>thought that folks might find that the concept interesting. > >>> > >>> > >>which boxes are still half finished? are these left over from robert's > >>garage? > >> > >> > >Yes, Rik and Leo. > >"half built" should be interpreted as meaning "still have more work to do", > > > >Rik: Please could you confirm that you are still interested in running Gentoo. > > > Yes, very much so. > > I got as far as "#emerge sync" (1.5 hrs on dialup) but didn't go on to > emerge portage at the time. So both these tasks would be better (re)done > on a faster network link. Then I'd be tackling why X only runs as root - how are you starting X - using the xdm service I hope. > insecure & unacceptable at the point at which I stopped using Gentoo. > this sounds like fun, nothing better than screw^h^h^h^h^h fixing someone elses laptop :) > Thanks for asking - v.keen > > Rik > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
