From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4613877A for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFD77E09D0; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86667E0856 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id bs8so1683994wib.2 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XgD2jGWTaTI/qW1TV7jm/4TZwpJYkTK9U7ZZh1Hu0Jg=; b=VtF+mbVXsuZbC1VHIR7p3IqoPpxt4+U72w/BVgroxg2x3jYzYsxmNvmLxlQ0lcT/wL fzaQxn3NnKDZ1vNmHrLgsoCcmMK8ixmkk+xfese8Ffj5DQIJhALWcbFw8eOKMEJXHzze fbgfKkBYOkzFGpcx6CL8J2KdTlzwn7LFZ/G0snT2f9cmDax51y06wxYoBz41ArNaSO6d ffaJxszpHS1NESjFw5ilKObOIVuypFMjzi6oxI/3ZoiTVA0hgpX6uIJBXpgFeekf2myN HyS9eyMa9FIL110jaUBN+6U1EOoQuHD9Z0in9pprc/9xX8opcL0FjcqMecVvHe9WuLiz KXkw== X-Received: by 10.194.200.229 with SMTP id jv5mr9869376wjc.90.1406912968231; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-190-183.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.190.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b9sm10391413wic.23.2014.08.01.10.09.27 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53DBC994.5050508@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:08:36 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e8dfe08b-4d78-417a-bee3-69a6571633bc X-Archives-Hash: ab90373ee83c7801497b0bc989a9f3e7 On 01/08/2014 16:30, behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everybody. > I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages > very frequently. > Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, > so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages > are outdated? > In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from > updating, right ? When to sync is completely in your control, so do it as often as you want. When installing a package, portage will want to install the latest deps according to your arch and mask/keywords, so if you haven't synced in a while, there's fewer updates. I used to do this often, as ZA used to have huge bandwidth problems. Back then I would only sync when I had decent bandwidth and I would fetch the distfiles in advance: emerge -pvf... and then use the regular grep\sed\sawk tools to get a list of distfiles to download. I would fetch those and write them to $PORTDIOR/distfiles When I ran emerge world for real, it would not need to fetch tarballs as they were already there. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com