On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question > > > > On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ok, Here goes... > > > > > > > > > How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a > > > > full copy of > > > > > the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles > > > directory of the average server? > > > > dunno, but huge. > > <snip> > > > you will waste a lot of bandwidth and diskspace. The mirror > > might hate you for > > it. You will have lots and lots of packages like packageX.1.1, > > packageX.1.1.0, packageX.1.1.1.... > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > I think that a better option may be to decide which software I want, > and use emerge -ef <package> on each of the big packages to get just > what I need. Maybe setting up a stage three install, with just the > kernel, boot loader, and portage and using 'emerge -ef world' first > might have the desired effect as far as getting the base system first. > > :-) > > That would also let me make sure that I have an up to date portage tree, > and just the files I need and maybe a few more. ^^;; > > Does that sound better, and less likely to piss off the mirrors? :P
yes ;) but why not set 'parallel-fetch' in your make.conf? That way portage should download packages, while compiling? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
