* RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
@ 2007-05-22 6:47 99% burlingk
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From: burlingk @ 2007-05-22 6:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemmann, Volker Armin
> [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
>
>
> 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.
<snip>
> 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
I think that a better option may be to decide which software I want,
and use emerge -ef <package> on each of the big packages to get just
what I need. Maybe setting up a stage three install, with just the
kernel, boot loader, and portage and using 'emerge -ef world' first
might have the desired effect as far as getting the base system first.
:-)
That would also let me make sure that I have an up to date portage tree,
and just the files I need and maybe a few more. ^^;;
Does that sound better, and less likely to piss off the mirrors? :P
---
Ken
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