Re: Low bandwidth/limited time online installation?
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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 > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-newbies