On Tuesday 04 February 2003 23:10, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: > I need to seed my mirror of rsync://rsync3.us.gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles > via CDR or DVD-R. Can anyone help? > > It looks like three DVD-R and a CDR should be enough to hold the data > (about 14 GB based on rsync -avn). > > I'll cover the media and (usps) postage. And can pass them on to > someone else in need once I copy them to disk. >
There are many duplicates in the distfiles dir (different versions of the same package). The easiest way to make a good mirror is to first make a portage tree. Fix that and make a tarball from it. use this script to make a nice list of all packages cd /usr/portage find -name "*.ebuild" |cut -d "/" -f 2,3 |sort |uniq >~/packages Make sure your distfiles dir is empty. And for each item in this list do an emerge -f -e <item> Be aware that certain packages such as the sun-jdk need a manual download to work. If you are planning on compiling openoffice also remember to include blackdown-jdk-1.3.1 Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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