On Tuesday 22 May 2007 06:06:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, Here goes... > > > How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the > portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory > of the average server? > > Would it be possible to draw down the whole archive all in one shot > using wget or similar, dump it all into a directory on the hard drive, > and direct portage there for the distribution files? > > I know this would basically be equivelent to making a local mirror of > the distrservers, and I would have to make sure that my portage tree > matches up to the files actually on the hard drive. ^^ What other > concerns would I need to look at at this point. :P
According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ distfiles. -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
