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On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, burlingk@×××××××××.mil wrote: |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin |
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> > [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de] |
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> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question |
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> > |
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> > On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, burlingk@×××××××××.mil wrote: |
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> > > Ok, Here goes... |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a |
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> > |
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> > full copy of |
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> > |
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> > > the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles |
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> > > directory of the average server? |
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> > dunno, but huge. |
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> <snip> |
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> > you will waste a lot of bandwidth and diskspace. The mirror |
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> > might hate you for |
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> > it. You will have lots and lots of packages like packageX.1.1, |
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> > packageX.1.1.0, packageX.1.1.1.... |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> I think that a better option may be to decide which software I want, |
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> and use emerge -ef <package> on each of the big packages to get just |
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> what I need. Maybe setting up a stage three install, with just the |
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> kernel, boot loader, and portage and using 'emerge -ef world' first |
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> might have the desired effect as far as getting the base system first. |
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> :-) |
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> That would also let me make sure that I have an up to date portage tree, |
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> and just the files I need and maybe a few more. ^^;; |
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> Does that sound better, and less likely to piss off the mirrors? :P |
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yes ;) |
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but why not set 'parallel-fetch' in your make.conf? That way portage should |
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download packages, while compiling? |
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