| 1 |
A guy here in NZ (where net connections are not quite third world, more |
| 2 |
like world-2.5) is planning to compile a gentoo dvd, with a fair old |
| 3 |
load of distfiles for the bandwidth challenged. He is a regular |
| 4 |
opensource cd distributor. |
| 5 |
|
| 6 |
Now I have explained to him why its not really feasible for him to try |
| 7 |
and mirror distfiles even on a dvd so we are going to try and include |
| 8 |
the source files for current stable. |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
I told him I thought that it would probably be feasible to write a |
| 11 |
script to parse the portage tree, and to download all the files |
| 12 |
necessary for all the latest current stable builds in there. (Actually |
| 13 |
we have no idea even how much that is, but it certainly doesn't involve |
| 14 |
5 or 6 versions of kde & gnome :-) |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
Anyway I told him I would ask around here to see if there is a current |
| 17 |
tool to do what i am suggesting. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
something like: |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
command to establish latest stable version list|emerge -f |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
perhaps harder: prune it to current. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
His idea is to create dvd's more or less on demand, order one today and |
| 26 |
it will have what is current today. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Thanks for all and any tips. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
-- |
| 34 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives