* Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
@ 2007-05-22 6:34 99% ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
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From: Hemmann, Volker Armin @ 2007-05-22 6:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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....
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