From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqMcQ-0008Il-DR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 05:09:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4M572A3021089; Tue, 22 May 2007 05:07:02 GMT Received: from mxfep03.bredband.com (mxfep03.bredband.com [195.54.107.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4M51vp1015269 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 05:01:57 GMT Received: from ironport2.bredband.com ([195.54.107.84] [195.54.107.84]) by mxfep03.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20070522050156.HRUU23113.mxfep03.bredband.com@ironport2.bredband.com> for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 07:01:56 +0200 Received: from c-c0f5e055.104-1-64736c15.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO explosive.homelinux.org) ([85.224.245.192]) by ironport2.bredband.com with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 22 May 2007 07:01:56 +0200 From: Naga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:01:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705220701.55970.nagatoro@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 42ff0052-34ca-418d-8c4e-e6dd09c894db X-Archives-Hash: 73b012780f4444d24e9d115babc7df51 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. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list