On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:17 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
> I am not sure if this is the right forum to discuss ideas for emerge,
> and for all I know this features may already exists in the current
> versions of emerge but I thought I'd take a chance and write down my
> idea anyway.
>
> 1. Em
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:02:15 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote:
> It may not still be the same case, but I was turned off of NFS years ago
> because if it's relatively poor network performance and overly-chatty
> protocols. IMHO NFS was simply a dog, and any other alternative was
> better.
I may give y
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # eix http-replicator
>
> Found 0 matches
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # eix -S replicator
>
> Found 0 matches
>
> bummer...
Yeah, it's not in portage but it is mentioned in the wiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator
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> > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the http
> > proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package files so
> I
> > only have to perform the download from the net once to keep the entire
> > internal network up to date.
>
> Does this handle pkg X being
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:15:12 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
>
> > > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the
> > > http proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package
> > > files so I only have to perform the dow
> > > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the
> > > http proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package
> > > files so I only have to perform the download from the net once to
> > > keep the entire internal network up to date.
> >
> > Does this handle pkg
Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
> 2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other
> packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome,
> while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and
> download the next package and save time.
>
for your seco
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:15:12 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the
> > http proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package
> > files so I only have to perform the download from the net once to
> > keep the entire internal
Dave Nebinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> > 2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other
> > packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome,
> > while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and
> > download the next package and
> 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks
> for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this
> with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to
> have it as part of emerge.
This is not windows where every application includ
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:47:22 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > emerge -fuD world &
> > sleep 5 &&
> > emerge -uDav world
> >
> > But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunately,
> > implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:47:22 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> emerge -fuD world &
> sleep 5 &&
> emerge -uDav world
>
> But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunately,
> implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless there is a
> --nodownload flag. otherwise, you'll have t
On 4/25/05, Devraj Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other
> packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome,
> while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and
> download the next package
On Monday 25 April 2005 13:47, Jason Cooper wrote:
> But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunately,
> implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless there is a
> --nodownload flag. otherwise, you'll have to figure out some way to block
> the emerge process until the fil
Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks
> for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this
> with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to
> have it as part of emerge.
I am not sure if this is the right forum to discuss ideas for emerge,
and for all I know this features may already exists in the current
versions of emerge but I thought I'd take a chance and write down my
idea anyway.
1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks
for s
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