[gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Peter S. Mazinger
Hello! I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) downloading all the sources for building from scratch is not a solution, but I have some of the (big) sources around, that would be needed. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Peter S. Mazinger wrote: Hello! I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) downloading all the sources for building from scratch is not a solution, but I have some of the (big) sources around,

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Middleton
All of the source files are located in /usr/portage/distfiles If you put them there, they should not be downloaded. You can prefetch the files (or check to see if they are available) with emerge -f package name On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:03, Peter S. Mazinger wrote: Hello! I'm gentoo newbie.

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put source binaries to omit downloading them

2003-10-30 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:03:18 +0100 (CET) Peter S. Mazinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm gentoo newbie. I want to move to gentoo, starting with portage installed and emerge sync. Because I am a dialup user (analog modem ;-( ) downloading all the sources for