| 1 |
On Sunday 03 March 2002 12:51, Sami Al-Sayed wrote: |
| 2 |
> Hello, |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> Just a quick query about Gentoo/Portage: |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> Is it possible to use Portage with a standard (and pretty slow) PPP dial-up |
| 7 |
> modem connection (ie. 56K)? Does Portage support resume of broken |
| 8 |
> downloads? |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> I have a free dial-up internet connection which (annoyingly) disconnects |
| 11 |
> itself after every 2 hours of being connected, and would like to give |
| 12 |
> Gentoo a try, as I have so far not been completely satisfied with the |
| 13 |
> various binary distributions I've tried and their package management |
| 14 |
> systems. I am also a self-confessed optimisation fanatic :-) |
| 15 |
I and quite a few users have 56k dialup connections (not sure about other |
| 16 |
developers though :-). I've never had any problems; I'm used to the |
| 17 |
connection speed in general and downloadnig sources isn't any worse than |
| 18 |
downloading other things (emotionally speaking). Anyway, once you build up a |
| 19 |
big downloaded source databse in distfiles/ of a gigabyte or two, the |
| 20 |
occasional download of a new version isn't very taxing on even a 56k |
| 21 |
connection. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
The latest build disk has dilup support, too. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
Download resuming is already fully supported in the portage-1.8.9 tree. It is |
| 26 |
now unstable and masked, but will be released before gentoo v1.0, and that |
| 27 |
means beore the end of March. |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
-- |
| 30 |
Dan Armak |
| 31 |
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE) |
| 32 |
Matan, Israel |
Archives