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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this possible ? (Emerge)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:21:31
Message-Id: 20060325160554.26b9e069@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is this possible ? (Emerge) by Meino Christian Cramer
1 On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:49:35 +0100 (CET), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
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3 > Is it possible to instruct emerge to search for already downloaded
4 > archives in two directories but write only to one directory?
5 >
6 > This would enable the following:
7 >
8 > Say, the distfiles directory of system will take about 800MB of
9 > space. Now one would be able to store/backup this stuff onto a CD
10 > and mount this this CD under /usr/portage/distfiles_cd.
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12 echo "local /media/cdrom/distfiles" >>/etc/portage/mirrors
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14 man portage for more detail.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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