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Hi |
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I am using gentoo largely with a dialup connection at home (too lazy to bring |
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laptop to the lab at the times :-)). I must say, that I find gentoo the most |
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"dial-up" frendly distribution. Not that it preferes dial-up over broadband |
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of course :-), but it makes it possible to use it as dial-up only. |
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emerge rsync takes usually just a few minutes (after original one, which |
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would take 1-2 hrs, but you can just grub latest portage tree (tbz2 file |
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which is 4MB instead of ~20MB uncompressed) and untar it to /usr/portage). |
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It can resumae after disconnects if you emerge prozilla and modify |
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/etc/make.conf to make use of it. |
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Downloading large stuff (kernel/glibc/kde...) takes a long time, but the same |
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does its compilation. Just do it overnight. You don't have to coach this |
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process, so in the end this distro saves your time. |
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If you have broadband somwhere else, you can just grab necessary sources and |
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place them to /usr/portage/distfiles (this is where they end up anyways). If |
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you have a few computers and don't want to duplicate all that just nfs-export |
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this directory (or the whole portage or even /usr, depending on what you have |
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in mind). |
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So in short, yes it is definitely possible and actually even easier than |
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with other distributions. If they would only parallelize source fetching and |
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compilation..., but this is on TODO list I beleive. |
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George |
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On Sunday 03 March 2002 02:51, you wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Just a quick query about Gentoo/Portage: |
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> Is it possible to use Portage with a standard (and pretty slow) PPP dial-up |
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> modem connection (ie. 56K)? Does Portage support resume of broken |
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> downloads? |
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> I have a free dial-up internet connection which (annoyingly) disconnects |
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> itself after every 2 hours of being connected, and would like to give |
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> Gentoo a try, as I have so far not been completely satisfied with the |
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> various binary distributions I've tried and their package management |
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> systems. I am also a self-confessed optimisation fanatic :-) |
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> Thanks for your time. |
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> Regards, |
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> Sami Knudsen Al-Sayed |
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