On Oct 19, 2003, at 11:22 pm, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
I'm not really familiar with the best way to pass textfiles with lots
of URLs to wget, but that's the way (I think) to grab the packages. I
should have said: `emerge -Ufp world>>somefile.txt`...will give you a
full *URL* to all the files you ne
Stroller's Log: StarDate 1017.2327:
> On Oct 17, 2003, at 8:57 pm, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > Extapolationg from the next paragraph, would 'emerge -fp ??? >>
> > listFile' get me a list of what is needed? Can that list be
> > downloaded with wget?
>
> I'm not really familiar with the best way to
On Oct 17, 2003, at 8:57 pm, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
Stroller's Log: StarDate 1016.1134:
Extapolationg from the next paragraph, would 'emerge -fp ??? >>
listFile'
get me a list of what is needed? Can that list be downloaded with wget?
Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -U
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> Opening x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso with WinImage shows a stages dir with
> a Stage1 file of ~11MB built 9/13/03. There's also a packages dir with
> a whole bunch of tbz2 files. Are these all sources, or is just the
> gentoo-sources file the one of interest. Perhaps booting from this
Stroller's Log: StarDate 1016.1134:
> On Oct 16, 2003, at 4:15 am, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > The why is that I have a s.l.o.o.o.o.w 28.8 connection for my home
> > network (linux based) and my friend has WinXP on a cable modem (115K)
> > where I use putty to do stuff on my linux box. My friend is
On Friday 17 October 2003 00:36, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:34:41 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> | I disagree. Gentoo does not have a perfect system of classifying
> | packages. I cannot speak to masked packages, but many totally
> | harmless, totally u
On Friday 17 October 2003 09:18, Stroller wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2003, at 11:42 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote:
> >> Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world
> >
> > Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u?
>
> I don't reall
On Oct 16, 2003, at 11:42 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote:
Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world
Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u?
I don't really.
...Any particular reason why you would advise new users to keep
bro
On Oct 16, 2003, at 4:34 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:42:32 +0900 Jason Stubbs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote:
Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world
Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u? If not
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:34:41 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I disagree. Gentoo does not have a perfect system of classifying
| packages. I cannot speak to masked packages, but many totally
| harmless, totally useful packages are marked ~x86.
If you find any like that, it's pro
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:42:32 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote:
> > Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world
>
> Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u? If not running ~x86 (and most users
>
> shouldn
On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote:
> Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world
Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u? If not running ~x86 (and most users
shouldn't be) the only time that a package might be downgraded is if breakage
is discovered. A
On Oct 16, 2003, at 4:15 am, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
In a similar vein I desire the gentoo CD, but do not want to buy
it; rather I want to download ISOs and burn them. And I just found the
url to do just that.
The why is that I have a s.l.o.o.o.o.w 28.8 connection for my home
network (linux bas
Stroller's Log: StarDate 1009.1541:
> On 2 Oct 2003, at 10:06 am, Pietro Leone wrote:
> > Hallo, a friend of mine (a crazy one ;-) want to download for me all
> > the gentoo packages and put them into CD-ROMs. Is it possible? How
> > can I use these CDs? Portage can manage CDs as sources of package
On 2 Oct 2003, at 10:06 am, Pietro Leone wrote:
Hallo, a friend of mine (a crazy one ;-) want to download for me all
the
gentoo packages and put them into CD-ROMs. Is it possible? How can I
use
these CDs? Portage can manage CDs as sources of packages, as apt of
Debian does? (Of course without co
Sorry forgot something,
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
Pick a mirror and go into the gentoo/distfiles and download
> -Original Message-
> From: Pietro Leone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:07 AM
> To: ML-GentooUser
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo
soulfly gentoo # du -sh distfiles/
22Gdistfiles
That's a lot of CD's
If you get rid of dups you might be able to shave 5-6 gigs off there.
You will also have to get a copy of the rsync tree that you will need to use
and not update the tree.
> -Original Message-
> From: Pietro L
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