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On 2/26/20 7:08 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> ��� due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a |
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> network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine.� However, |
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> being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very |
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> slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even |
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> slower to the point of not always being practical |
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> Is there a way to localise/speedup portage scanning parts of the |
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> update/install process? |
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A simpler, much less sophisticated update, what I do is |
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use emerge -f option to 'fetch only' option first. The selectively |
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update; or you can use a usb-3.1+ device for fast easy upgrades, due to |
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laptop limitations, but the communications data channel limitations |
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leave you at the mercy of the available wireless bandwidth characteristics. |
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Unlocked cell phones will (theoretically) allow you to |
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temporarily-dynamically switch to another provider (carrier) for faster |
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wireless bandwidth. It's baked into most of the 5G chipsets, and can |
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even work with 4G channels. |
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Many (stupid) carriers are fighting against giving to the citizens, the |
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right to dynamically use a variety of services, and control your |
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software stack on cell phones. Anti-competitive. Multi-homed bandwidth, |
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for mobile needs (cell or lappy) is coming, but corruption in |
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governments and companies is hindering what has already been 'designed |
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in' to how Rf (wireless) bandwidth is articulated. |
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Most regulators, are mentally 'arcane' thus technologist suffer....... |
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> 1. put it on a squashfs share to save space (the laptop is running btrfs |
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> with compression so I don't think that will get me much) |
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> 2. put portage on an sd card and mount it when necessary |
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> The laptop is a Surface Pro4 so expanding the storage is not practical - |
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> though I could shrink the windows partition a little more. |
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Maybe a usb-splitter would help? (no usb ports?) |
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> BillK |
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hth, |
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James |
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