On 01/08/2014 16:30, behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everybody. > I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages > very frequently. > Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, > so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages > are outdated? > In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from > updating, right ?
When to sync is completely in your control, so do it as often as you want. When installing a package, portage will want to install the latest deps according to your arch and mask/keywords, so if you haven't synced in a while, there's fewer updates. I used to do this often, as ZA used to have huge bandwidth problems. Back then I would only sync when I had decent bandwidth and I would fetch the distfiles in advance: emerge -pvf... <whatever> and then use the regular grep\sed\sawk tools to get a list of distfiles to download. I would fetch those and write them to $PORTDIOR/distfiles When I ran emerge world for real, it would not need to fetch tarballs as they were already there. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
