Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Gwenn Gueguen <gwenn.gueguen@×××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] download and compile
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:55:18
Message-Id: 1019073319.3cbdd32716620@grumlygg.dyndns.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] download and compile by Bart Lauwers
1 > Try 'emerge -f' after you did your 'emerge -p', this will
2 > download all the sources so you can shut down your connection
3 > to the internet while you start your build.
4
5 My problem is not to limit internet connection time.
6
7 If the download of packages is done in the background while
8 compiling, the total time to obtain a complete system will
9 nearly equal to the total compile time instead of total
10 download time + total compile time.
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12 As download should use few CPU time, it could be interresting
13 and shouldn't slow compilation...
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15 --
16 Gwenn