On 01/25/04 David Obwaller wrote: > Hi, > > I want to upgrade to the latest gnome version (2.4.1). I have a cd > containing the whole sources, but gzip compressed (not bzip2). I did > 'lndir /mnt/cdrom/gnome-2.4.1 /usr/portage/distfiles' and tried emerge > -pf gnome. portage now wants to download the whole set of files as > .bz, it doesn't use the .gz files. > It wouldn't be a problem for me to download the .bz compressed sources > as I have a quite fast internet connection, but I'm curious to know if > I could use the .gz ones too and if so how. > So, is this possible somehow? (manually untar'ing the compressed > sources or something??)
If you edit the ebuilds, but IMO it's not worth the trouble if you aren't on dialup. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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