Re: [gentoo-dev] Please help with RC_6 install...

[Nathaniel Grady <nate@nutopia.org>]

Are you aware of emerge --fetchonly? My solution to the 56k problem has been to march over to somewhere there's a faster line and do an emerge --fetchonly packagename to grab all the source, then go back home and let it build for ever and ever...

--Nate Grady

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:26:02AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> Dear Gentooers,
> 
> I am about to of install RC6-r9 from a tbz2 build. I am doing it over a 56k
> dialup (please do not laugh).
> 
> What I try to do is to download the needed sources at work, then put these
> files to /usr/portage/distfiles after I chroot to the build. Emerge rsync is
> reasonable even over a dialup). I know the files for bootstrap from the
> install-docs (gettext, glibc, binutils, gcc).
> 
> My question is: How can I get the list of source files I need for doing an
> 
> emerge system (apart from doing an emerge --pretend system, because to do this
> I have to be in the middle of the install for 2-3 days, given that I can only
> use free dialup at night).
> 
> Just a vage list of files or a pointer to them would be very helpful for me to
> use to set up the base system...
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks : VIktor
> 
> 
> ----Viktor Lakics----
> 
> Through the Internet:
> 
>   lakicsv@usa.net
> 
> 
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