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Are you aware of emerge --fetchonly? My solution to the 56k problem has been to march over to somewhere there's a faster line and do an emerge --fetchonly packagename to grab all the source, then go back home and let it build for ever and ever... |
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--Nate Grady |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:26:02AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: |
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> Dear Gentooers, |
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> I am about to of install RC6-r9 from a tbz2 build. I am doing it over a 56k |
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> dialup (please do not laugh). |
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> What I try to do is to download the needed sources at work, then put these |
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> files to /usr/portage/distfiles after I chroot to the build. Emerge rsync is |
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> reasonable even over a dialup). I know the files for bootstrap from the |
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> install-docs (gettext, glibc, binutils, gcc). |
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> My question is: How can I get the list of source files I need for doing an |
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> emerge system (apart from doing an emerge --pretend system, because to do this |
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> I have to be in the middle of the install for 2-3 days, given that I can only |
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> use free dialup at night). |
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> Just a vage list of files or a pointer to them would be very helpful for me to |
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> use to set up the base system... |
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> Thanks : VIktor |
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> ----Viktor Lakics---- |
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