[gentoo-user] snail-mail mirror of distfiles?

2003-02-04 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] snail-mail mirror of distfiles?

2003-02-05 Thread Paul de Vrieze
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 cove

Re: [gentoo-user] snail-mail mirror of distfiles?

2003-02-05 Thread Sam Mason
Paul de Vrieze wrote: >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 xargs is probably your friend here. It read