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 1HqO40-0003Z0-Tf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:41:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4M6eRX2026403; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:40:27 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4M6YIAP018745 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:34:18 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EB2F20599D for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 08:34:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC2E20590B for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 08:34:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTPSA id 23071983 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 08:34:18 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:34:16 +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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705220834.16500.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 64db5cd8-bc9b-46cb-b2c9-41cb330add04 X-Archives-Hash: 863a97746525988f108042ae53899ef2 On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, 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? dunno, but huge. > > 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, choose a mirror. download the complete distfiles dir of that mirror. wget can do that. > > 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 you will waste a lot of bandwidth and diskspace. The mirror might hate you for it. You will have lots and lots of packages like packageX.1.1, packageX.1.1.0, packageX.1.1.1.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list