RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

[<burlingk@cv63.navy.mil>]

> -----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


--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list