Re: Low bandwidth/limited time online installation?

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On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:22:40PM -0600, Mazhar Memon wrote:
> > yes, portage expects all the downloaded files to be in
> > /usr/portage/distfiles/
> > so you could mount your cdrom there, or bind /mnt/cdrom/ to that, or just
> > copy the files.
> > whatever floats your boat
> 
> Is there an easy way to get URL's of the dist files?  For instance if a tar ball isn't on a certain mirror, portage will try another mirror.  It would be cool to get portage to create a url list with which you can just wget -i <file> at work; or where ever you have a fast connection; this way you can rest assure that all your downloads will complete.

well, you can always look into the 'files' subdirectory of a certain package
for example in 
/usr/portage/net-dns/bind-tools/files
you can find the bind source tarball together with an md5 sum

greetz
stijn

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