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From: Naga <nagatoro@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:01:55 +0200
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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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