Re: [gentoo-dev] Size of downloads for emerge

[Christian Skarby]

> I do emerge over a modem and sometimes I'd like to get an idea of how
> much  downloading an emerge is going to be. Is there any way of doing
> this. eg emerge -p update world tells me what packages will be updated
> but gives me  no clue as to how many megs will be coming down my phone
> line. Is there any  way of getting this info easy?

No easy way as I know about, but each "package" has a files-directory
where there are digest-files for all files each ebuild-revision needs. In
the digestfile both a md5-checksum and the filesize for each file an
ebuild needs is noted.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone already has written a script that takes
a package-name as argument, reads the corresponding digestfile and sum up
the filesizes for all files not in /usr/portage/distfiles - but then again
I haven't seen it :)

All the best,

Christian