Alan E. Davis wrote: >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 > > > Hmmm. Let me ask you a question. What exactly are you trying to put in /usr/portage? If this is stuff you are getting for personal use, you should put them in your user directory, /home/<user>. Maybe I am missing something.
If you want to have a system set up as a server for your distfiles, http-replicator works right nicely. I have been using it for a while now. It is pretty small and just sits there when not in use. I run it on my main rig and my three other rigs download from it. I'm on dial-up to and no need downloading big files 4 times. If you have several Gentoo rigs, you can also set up a rsync server. You actually already have it but it is not turned on. Search for rsyncd on the forums in the Documentation, Tips & Tricks <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-12.html?sid=e41d96c167f9ac50c47f0f182a86c8a9> sectioon. Oops, that sort of tunred into a link didn't it. Sorry. May be handy for him though. o_O Let us know what you are trying to do. If you are off base, we can get you on track so you won't loose it again. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
