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From: Naga <nagatoro@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:01:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705220701.55970.nagatoro@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AA0639A1EB70AE409130258CE7BDC31806646ADF@messenger.cv63.navy.mil>

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 06:06:42 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?
>
> 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?
>
> I know this would basically be equivelent to making a local mirror of
> the distrservers, and I would have to make sure that my portage tree
> matches up to the files actually on the hard drive. ^^  What other
> concerns would I need to look at at this point. :P

According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ 
distfiles.
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Naga
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-22  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-22  4:06 [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question burlingk
2007-05-22  4:30 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-22  5:01 ` Naga [this message]
2007-05-22  5:23   ` Dale
2007-05-22  5:39   ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-22  6:30     ` Naga
2007-05-22 13:03       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-22  6:34 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-22 15:27   ` Dan Farrell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-22  4:55 burlingk
2007-05-22  5:13 burlingk
2007-05-22  6:47 burlingk
2007-05-22  7:02 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-22  7:13 burlingk
2007-05-22  7:26 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-22  7:42 burlingk
2007-05-22  8:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-23  0:13 burlingk
2007-05-23  0:21 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-23  8:25   ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-23  0:25 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-23  0:46   ` Dale
2007-05-23  0:57     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-23  2:37       ` Dale
2007-05-23  8:22       ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-23  1:40 burlingk

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