Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:06 +0900, burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> Ok,  Here goes...
>  
>  
> How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of
> the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles
> directory of the average server?

all of the distfiles?  about 7 or 8 Gb I seem to recall reading on the
handbook...

> Would it be possible to draw down the whole archive all in one shot
> using wget or similar, dump it all into a directory on the hard drive,
> and direct portage there for the distribution files?

yes, of course, but what for?  If you just want an "offline"
installation, you can use -f to emerge which will download (fetch) only.

or if you want to download on one machine, and transfer the files via
disk or something to another machine, use -fp to get the list of files
to download.

of course, neither of these methods cover the fact that you might not
know exactly everything you want to install...

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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