[gentoo-dev] Size of downloads for emerge

[gentoo-dev] Size of downloads for emerge

[Jonathan Hunt]

Hi,

I do emerge over a modem and sometimes I'd like to get an idea of how much 
downloading an emerge is going to be. Is there any way of doing this.
eg emerge -p update world tells me what packages will be updated but gives me 
no clue as to how many megs will be coming down my phone line. Is there any 
way of getting this info easy?

Cheers,
Jonny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Size of downloads for emerge

[Christian Skarby]

> I do emerge over a modem and sometimes I'd like to get an idea of how
> much  downloading an emerge is going to be. Is there any way of doing
> this. eg emerge -p update world tells me what packages will be updated
> but gives me  no clue as to how many megs will be coming down my phone
> line. Is there any  way of getting this info easy?

No easy way as I know about, but each "package" has a files-directory
where there are digest-files for all files each ebuild-revision needs. In
the digestfile both a md5-checksum and the filesize for each file an
ebuild needs is noted.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone already has written a script that takes
a package-name as argument, reads the corresponding digestfile and sum up
the filesizes for all files not in /usr/portage/distfiles - but then again
I haven't seen it :)

All the best,

Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Size of downloads for emerge

[Felipe Ghellar]

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> I do emerge over a modem

Then this is for you:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5224


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