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2014-08-01 8:30 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@×××××.com>: |
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> Hello everybody. |
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> I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages |
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> very frequently. |
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> Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, |
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> so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages |
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> are outdated? |
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If you plan to update monthly you might want to use emerge-webrsync, |
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and download portage snapshots as a tarball, it isn't that large |
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~70MiB, and if you get the chance of acces a better connection, you |
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can download it from the web[1] and just unpack it to your |
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${PORTDIR}, this is one of the good things about portage, and source |
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based compared to binary distros, you download a snapshot, upgrade |
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your packages, and you can keep installing packages from the ebuilds |
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in that snapshot without trouble for some time(if sources are |
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available), I know someone, a bit insane in my opinion, that was |
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still using a 2009 snapshot of portage as of the last year(not without |
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troubles), and he might still. |
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> In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from |
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> updating, right ? |
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> |
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> Thanks. |
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> |
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