The distfiles directory is around 15 gigs, you can save a LOT of space if you exclude many of the larger files like UT2k3, OpenOffice (there are several versions), the KDE i18n stuff and all of the Linux kernels (the ebuilds download the kernel packages from kernel.org anyways). Check the rsync manual for how to exclude files.
Although what you plan on doing seems like a good idea. Emerge will just skip any packages that havent been upgraded anyways. > -----Original Message----- > From: Spida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Build own distfiles mirror > > > Hi, > > I want to setup a Gentoo Mirror for an install at my local > Linux-User-Group (They have only ISDN/64kbit Inet). > I did read that docs on this, and whereas the docs for setting up > the rsync part of the mirror are ok, information on the > distfiles-part isn't that complete. > In the docs is mentioned that the distfiles mirror will be around > 30-40GB, but in the Forums I read something about 3-4GB. > Is there a method to choose just a specific subset of packages? > Like "only the highest stable version, if there is no stable, the > highest unstable version"? > Or should I do something like: > > for i in /usr/portage do > for j in /usr/portage/$i do > emerge -f $j; > done > done > > As for the download, it doesn't matter if its 1Gb or 40GB, as I > have an agreement with to get local lan access to one of the > mirrors. > > > Spida > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
