Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

[Jc García]

2014-08-01 9:03 GMT-06:00 Jc García <jyo.garcia@×××××.com>:
> 2014-08-01 8:30 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@×××××.com>:
>> Hello everybody.
>> I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages
>> very frequently.
>> Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two,
>> so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages
>> are outdated?
> If you plan to update monthly you might want to use emerge-webrsync,
> and download portage snapshots as a tarball, it isn't that large
> ~70MiB, and if you get the chance of acces a better connection, you
> can download it from the web[1] and just unpack it to your
> ${PORTDIR}, this is one of the good things about portage, and source
> based compared to binary distros, you download a snapshot, upgrade
> your packages, and you can keep installing packages from the ebuilds
> in that snapshot without trouble for some time(if sources are
> available), I  know someone, a bit insane in my opinion, that was
> still using a 2009 snapshot of portage as of the last year(not without
> troubles), and he might still.
>> In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from
>> updating, right ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
missing URL[1]

[1] http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/