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On Tuesday 22 May 2007 06:06:42 burlingk@×××××××××.mil wrote: |
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> Ok, Here goes... |
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> How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the |
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> portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory |
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> of the average server? |
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> Would it be possible to draw down the whole archive all in one shot |
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> using wget or similar, dump it all into a directory on the hard drive, |
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> and direct portage there for the distribution files? |
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> I know this would basically be equivelent to making a local mirror of |
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> the distrservers, and I would have to make sure that my portage tree |
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> matches up to the files actually on the hard drive. ^^ What other |
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> concerns would I need to look at at this point. :P |
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According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ |
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distfiles. |
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Naga |
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