It is also very useful on a office enviroment. Normally, on offices, at least on my personal experiences, the entire staff is consuming bandwidth during commercial hours. So you can use a cron job to --fetchonly the packages you want from hours 21:00 to 06:00. Then on the next day, all you have to do is compile.
2005/9/30, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quick note: --fetchonly is also useful if for some reason the md5 checksum > fails on the source files. > > > On 9/30/05, Uwe Thiem < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30 September 2005 06:57, vikram ranade wrote: > > > Quick question.... > > > I looked in the emerge man pages but i cant seem to figure out how to > > > download all the packages using emerge and then compile them > > > is there some parameter that i can use? > > > > > > > > > emerge <download first parameter> <package> > > > ? > > > or do i have to mess with the make.conf file? > > > > You are looking for "--fetchonly". > > > > Uwe > > > > -- > > 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software > > developers. - Linus Torvalds > > > > http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
