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From: Ramon van Alteren <ramon@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tracking distfiles
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:55:36
Message-Id: 200405191355.32627.ramon@forgottenland.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] tracking distfiles by Nick Rout
1 Hi,
2
3 On Wednesday 19 May 2004 13:47, Nick Rout wrote:
4 > I told him I thought that it would probably be feasible to write a
5 > script to parse the portage tree, and to download all the files
6 > necessary for all the latest current stable builds in there. (Actually
7 > we have no idea even how much that is, but it certainly doesn't involve
8 > 5 or 6 versions of kde & gnome :-)
9 >
10 > Anyway I told him I would ask around here to see if there is a current
11 > tool to do what i am suggesting.
12 >
13 > something like:
14 >
15 > command to establish latest stable version list|emerge -f
16 >
17 > perhaps harder: prune it to current.
18
19 I would be very interested in the same. I'm currently involved in setting up
20 an "off-line mirror" for a open source center in Uganda. Bandwidth is
21 definitly third-world there (32kb max).
22
23 Plan is to ship harddisks to and fro by snail-mail on a quarterly basis. Any
24 tools helpfull in assembling a usefull dist-file image would be most welcome.
25
26 Grtz Ramon
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