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 4.43) id 1EC3ry-0006GG-Pf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:25:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j84NLRuv005462; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 23:21:27 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j84NHbEi029216 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 23:17:37 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h27so677750wxd for ; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=abmMJBs/CxuaeF7PeXRNLrxnofN+87oeczOougnUjkNpv+RIu3dF0mALrmGgYpX3auMvMZQnJzGDUX/159kYufFvhDN3uddIlL6nJSK9BokxlOshesbgEhvmqmz1ZiZ4XqNlQbxgxiqySMQG2nw4LWSwXsImyly6HP3haWT/MU0= Received: by 10.70.10.20 with SMTP id 20mr63943wxj; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.50.5 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:20:39 +1000 From: Justin Kelly To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd In-Reply-To: <200509031931.07965.uwix@iway.na> 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-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050902224422.GF22150@lugmen.org.ar> <200509031931.07965.uwix@iway.na> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j84NHbEi029216 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j84NLRvG005462 X-Archives-Salt: 72c6e8bd-fdc4-4f71-9474-4c76b8e5e6e9 X-Archives-Hash: 448eb598dd69b9e995d1faf4808ad11a Thanks all for the replies, I'll have a look at getdelta, I was more after something like where for Debian you can get the 12CD/4DVD set and just apt-get the packages locally. re Nick, just get a whole lot of binary packages on CD/DVD is what im aft= er. Cheers Justin Kelly > Nick Rout =09 >=20 >you are mixing two issues here - do you want to download sources faster >and still compile them yourself, or just get binary packages? On 9/4/05, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 02 September 2005 23:44, Fernando Canizo wrote: > > El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me dec=EDa: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find t= o > > > difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), = is > > > there anything like the Packages CD but more :) > > > > > > Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I > > > don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD. > > > > No, don't know, but in the meantime you can use 'getdelta' (emerge > > getdelta). I know a couple of dialup users that were very satisfied > > with this. >=20 > I concur. It usually speeds things up. >=20 > Uwe >=20 > -- > 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software > developers. - Linus Torvalds >=20 > http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >=20 > --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list