From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from chamber.cco.caltech.edu (chamber.cco.caltech.edu [131.215.48.55]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7E2201607D for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:31:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from there (85-pppold-its.caltech.edu [131.215.138.85]) by chamber.cco.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA27780 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 10:28:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203031828.KAA27780@chamber.cco.caltech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: George Shapovalov To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection? Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 10:35:45 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 2d10aa0c-9dc9-43ab-ab80-8e97b1f9bab3 X-Archives-Hash: be72de15c92cb97c635ba7609d6a4fa7 Hi I am using gentoo largely with a dialup connection at home (too lazy to b= ring=20 laptop to the lab at the times :-)). I must say, that I find gentoo the m= ost=20 "dial-up" frendly distribution. Not that it preferes dial-up over broadba= nd=20 of course :-), but it makes it possible to use it as dial-up only. emerge rsync takes usually just a few minutes (after original one, which=20 would take 1-2 hrs, but you can just grub latest portage tree (tbz2 file=20 which is 4MB instead of ~20MB uncompressed) and untar it to /usr/portage)= =2E It can resumae after disconnects if you emerge prozilla and modify=20 /etc/make.conf to make use of it. Downloading large stuff (kernel/glibc/kde...) takes a long time, but the = same=20 does its compilation. Just do it overnight. You don't have to coach this=20 process, so in the end this distro saves your time. If you have broadband somwhere else, you can just grab necessary sources = and=20 place them to /usr/portage/distfiles (this is where they end up anyways).= If=20 you have a few computers and don't want to duplicate all that just nfs-ex= port=20 this directory (or the whole portage or even /usr, depending on what you = have=20 in mind). So in short, yes it is definitely possible and actually even easier th= an=20 with other distributions. If they would only parallelize source fetching = and=20 compilation..., but this is on TODO list I beleive. George On Sunday 03 March 2002 02:51, you wrote: > Hello, > > Just a quick query about Gentoo/Portage: > > Is it possible to use Portage with a standard (and pretty slow) PPP dia= l-up > modem connection (ie. 56K)? Does Portage support resume of broken > downloads? > > I have a free dial-up internet connection which (annoyingly) disconnect= s > itself after every 2 hours of being connected, and would like to give > Gentoo a try, as I have so far not been completely satisfied with the > various binary distributions I've tried and their package management > systems. I am also a self-confessed optimisation fanatic :-) > > Thanks for your time. > > Regards, > > Sami Knudsen Al-Sayed > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev