This is a relief. I should not have set up a directory in /usr/portage. It would have made more sense in /usr/local/something.
To clarify: I have an x86 machine at home, with dialup connection to the internet. It's taken some kind of long time to get the system squared away. To save several nights of letting "emerge -uDv world" download, I tried :TIP Downloading distfiles on another machine" at the Gentoo Wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine). This approach seems to have worked, at least in part; however, this importune choice of a directory to store the files downloaded by the script (distfile-grabber.py) led to ... you know what. That machine on the faster connection is an amd64 machine, and I was reluctant to mix the files, although there certainly many duplicates. It would have been excellent to be able to download to /usr/portage/distfiles on the amd64 machine, and modify the script to select the needed files from there,m to burn a CD and carry them home for the emerge -uDv update! Wow. I feel lucky. Time to google. Thank you for the excellent and timely responses. Alan Davis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
