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=2.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06, DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mxout2.netvision.net.il (mxout2.netvision.net.il [194.90.9.21]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A3C22EEB4D for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:43:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from laptop.dan.net ([62.0.84.133]) by mxout2.netvision.net.il (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built Sep 5 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GSE00C8UXC23E@mxout2.netvision.net.il> for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:40:51 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 01:51:56 +0200 From: Dan Armak Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection? In-reply-to: To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-id: <200203040151.56067.danarmak@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.99] Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8-i Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: 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: 2416a382-c93e-460a-8ffc-20390ee54aa1 X-Archives-Hash: aace36b2a72eaba74dcd03aa68f45610 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