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On 01/08/2014 16:30, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> Hello everybody. |
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> I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages |
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> very frequently. |
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> Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, |
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> so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages |
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> are outdated? |
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> In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from |
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> updating, right ? |
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When to sync is completely in your control, so do it as often as you |
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want. When installing a package, portage will want to install the latest |
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deps according to your arch and mask/keywords, so if you haven't synced |
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in a while, there's fewer updates. |
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I used to do this often, as ZA used to have huge bandwidth problems. |
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Back then I would only sync when I had decent bandwidth and I would |
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fetch the distfiles in advance: |
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emerge -pvf... <whatever> and then use the regular grep\sed\sawk tools |
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to get a list of distfiles to download. I would fetch those and write |
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them to $PORTDIOR/distfiles |
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When I ran emerge world for real, it would not need to fetch tarballs as |
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they were already there. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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