Re: Low bandwidth/limited time online installation?

> 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

It would be nice to make this automated.  For example, say you want to do a emerge rsync; emerge world -f.  It would be nice to get all the new package URLs into a file so that later you can d/l them with a higher speed connection.  May be another argument to emerge like:  emerge world --geturls.  Otherwise it would be tedious and unacceptable to note each new file name and its respective URL.

For example, replace the fetchcommand in make.globals with:
FETCHCOMMAND="echo \${URI} > /tmp/downloads"

This will give a list of urls to download assuming that portage thinks that they're being downloaded in the process.  I do agree however, of using the information in the 'files' subdirectory to make this more sucessful. I hope this illustrates what the problem is.  It seems like a really easy thing to get working and would be great for people with low-speed connections.

-Mazhar