On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [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?
dunno, but huge. > > 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? yes, choose a mirror. download the complete distfiles dir of that mirror. wget can do that. > > 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 you will waste a lot of bandwidth and diskspace. The mirror might hate you for it. You will have lots and lots of packages like packageX.1.1, packageX.1.1.0, packageX.1.1.1.... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
