From: Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection?
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 01:51:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203040151.56067.danarmak@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16hTbS-00051L-00.2002-03-03-10-52-31@mail18.svr.pol.co.uk>
On Sunday 03 March 2002 12:51, Sami Al-Sayed wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just a quick query about Gentoo/Portage:
>
> Is it possible to use Portage with a standard (and pretty slow) PPP dial-up
> modem connection (ie. 56K)? Does Portage support resume of broken
> downloads?
>
> I have a free dial-up internet connection which (annoyingly) disconnects
> 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 :-)
I and quite a few users have 56k dialup connections (not sure about other
developers though :-). I've never had any problems; I'm used to the
connection speed in general and downloadnig sources isn't any worse than
downloading other things (emotionally speaking). Anyway, once you build up a
big downloaded source databse in distfiles/ of a gigabyte or two, the
occasional download of a new version isn't very taxing on even a 56k
connection.
The latest build disk has dilup support, too.
Download resuming is already fully supported in the portage-1.8.9 tree. It is
now unstable and masked, but will be released before gentoo v1.0, and that
means beore the end of March.
--
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
Matan, Israel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-03 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-03 10:51 [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection? Sami Al-Sayed
2002-03-03 18:35 ` George Shapovalov
2002-03-03 20:53 ` ian.c.smith
2002-03-03 23:51 ` Dan Armak [this message]
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