[gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[Justin Kelly]

Hi All,

Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
there anything like the Packages CD but more :)

Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.

ie. So i can just emerge -K inkscape etc..., all the useful desktop
type packages that aren't included in the packages CD.

Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Justin Kelly

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:51:13 +1000
Justin Kelly wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
> difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
> there anything like the Packages CD but more :)
> 
> Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
> don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.
> 
> ie. So i can just emerge -K inkscape etc..., all the useful desktop
> type packages that aren't included in the packages CD.
> 
> Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Justin Kelly

you are mixing two issues here - do you want to download sources faster
and still compile them yourself, or just get binary packages?



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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[inferno]

Hi,

    I know that for x86/AMd 64 there is a Packages CD. Try searching on 
your country mirrors for the CD.

Best regards,
Cristi Stoica

Justin Kelly wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
>difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
>there anything like the Packages CD but more :)
>
>Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
>don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.
>
>ie. So i can just emerge -K inkscape etc..., all the useful desktop
>type packages that aren't included in the packages CD.
>
>Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Justin Kelly
>
>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[Fernando Canizo]

El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía:
> Hi All,
> 
> Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
> difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
> there anything like the Packages CD but more :)
> 
> Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
> don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.

No, don't know, but in the meantime you can use 'getdelta' (emerge
getdelta). I know a couple of dialup users that were very satisfied
with this.

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[Uwe Thiem]

On 02 September 2005 23:44, Fernando Canizo wrote:
> El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
> > difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
> > there anything like the Packages CD but more :)
> >
> > Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
> > don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.
>
> No, don't know, but in the meantime you can use 'getdelta' (emerge
> getdelta). I know a couple of dialup users that were very satisfied
> with this.

I concur. It usually speeds things up. 

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[Justin Kelly]

Thanks all for the replies,

I'll have a look at getdelta, I was more after something like where
for Debian you can get the 12CD/4DVD set and just apt-get the packages
locally.

re Nick, just get a whole lot of binary packages on CD/DVD is what im after.

Cheers

Justin Kelly

> Nick Rout 	
><nick@rout.co.nz> 
>you are mixing two issues here - do you want to download sources faster
>and still compile them yourself, or just get binary packages?


On 9/4/05, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> On 02 September 2005 23:44, Fernando Canizo wrote:
> > El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
> > > difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
> > > there anything like the Packages CD but more :)
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
> > > don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.
> >
> > No, don't know, but in the meantime you can use 'getdelta' (emerge
> > getdelta). I know a couple of dialup users that were very satisfied
> > with this.
> 
> I concur. It usually speeds things up.
> 
> Uwe
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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:20:39 +1000
Justin Kelly wrote:

> Thanks all for the replies,
> 
> I'll have a look at getdelta, I was more after something like where
> for Debian you can get the 12CD/4DVD set and just apt-get the packages
> locally.
> 
> re Nick, just get a whole lot of binary packages on CD/DVD is what im after.

Other than the packages cd that is released with each new gentoo release
cycle I am not aware of anything for ppc.

If you are on x86 there is http://chinstrap.alternating.net - although I
am not usre if they are still "alive" - and you still need to download
the binaries.


However, and I will be frank here, if you are not able to download
(either sources or binaries), and if you unwilling to compile stuff,
gentoo may not be for you. :-)

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Justin Kelly
> 
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