Hi NG,

Since I don't have a fast internet connection, I wonder:
Is there a way to use a Gentoo-based distro like Sabayon as a repository for
ebuilds?
Or, is it possible to download the ebuilds in a DVD and use it as a repo?

(Hey, this is amazing: developers try to optimize their sources to spare
every single bit to run the program even on a 386, and then the 386 is
supposed to have a T1 connection to get the package)

Thanks,

pedlo

pedlo wrote:
> Hi NG,
>
> Since I don't have a fast internet connection, I wonder:
> Is there a way to use a Gentoo-based distro like Sabayon as a repository for
> ebuilds?
> Or, is it possible to download the ebuilds in a DVD and use it as a repo?

The ebuilds you can download as a single file, around 34000KB nowadays, and
it's updated daily

ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/sn...latest.tar.bz2


> (Hey, this is amazing: developers try to optimize their sources to spare
> every single bit to run the program even on a 386, and then the 386 is
> supposed to have a T1 connection to get the package)

If you think there is all too much downloading with Gentoo, then you may have
picked the wrong distro, you should in that case gone with one providing you
with binary packages instead of a meta-distro.



//Aho

J.O. Aho wrote:

> pedlo wrote:
>> Hi NG,
>>
>> Since I don't have a fast internet connection, I wonder:
>> Is there a way to use a Gentoo-based distro like Sabayon as a repository
>> for ebuilds?
>> Or, is it possible to download the ebuilds in a DVD and use it as a repo?
>
> The ebuilds you can download as a single file, around 34000KB nowadays,
> and it's updated daily
>
> ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/sn...latest.tar.bz2
>
>
> > (Hey, this is amazing: developers try to optimize their sources to
> > spare every single bit to run the program even on a 386, and then the
> > 386 is supposed to have a T1 connection to get the package)
>
> If you think there is all too much downloading with Gentoo, then you may
> have picked the wrong distro, you should in that case gone with one
> providing you with binary packages instead of a meta-distro.
>
>
>
> //Aho

Binaries are available... browse gentoo.org and track them down... If you
can't burn a live gentoo dvd, I'll happily send you one FREE. Email me if
you need one. mcbrides9@comcast.net

NOW... THAT,S LINUX ADVOCACY.

--

Jerry McBride

<cut>

>
> If you think there is all too much downloading with Gentoo, then you may
> have picked the wrong distro, you should in that case gone with one
> providing you with binary packages instead of a meta-distro.
>
>
>
> //Aho

Actually you're right. Since I'm just a Linux amateur and a Suse user
looking out of the fence.
Suse has always been the best distro for my situation, plenty of interesting
programs and
useful games to keep the kids busy.. all in a dvd or a few cd's to downloads
at my friends' place.
Just for the talk, Fedora core 6 has a horrible packaging system that
doesn't accept non-web repos,
Ubuntu ships with just a cd and you need to spend a lot of time to browse
repos.

However, thanks for caring.

pedlo

pedlo wrote:

> Just for the talk, Fedora core 6 has a horrible packaging system that
> doesn't accept non-web repos,

You can still download the packages and use rpm to install them, you don't
need to use apt-get, yum, or any other frontend for rpm.

Looking at an example of yum.conf, it seems to be possible to use a local
repository, all you would need to do, is to setup your "local" and comment out
all remotes. Then you could just download and burn a DVD at a friends of yours
and pop-in and mount your fresh DVD and install/update what you want.


IMHO Fedora isn't anywhere near as good as RedHat7.3 was (the last good RedHat
release).


//Aho

For free? well, that would be great.
Actually I don't think shipping to Italy->Venice would be absolutely free.
And honestly I don't even believe in people that says "for free" ;-)

"Jerry McBride" <mcbrides9@comcast.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:fbvj44xg9f.ln2@supertux.my.domain...
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> pedlo wrote:
>>> Hi NG,
>>>
>>> Since I don't have a fast internet connection, I wonder:
>>> Is there a way to use a Gentoo-based distro like Sabayon as a repository
>>> for ebuilds?
>>> Or, is it possible to download the ebuilds in a DVD and use it as a
>>> repo?
>>
>> The ebuilds you can download as a single file, around 34000KB nowadays,
>> and it's updated daily
>>
>> ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/sn...latest.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>> > (Hey, this is amazing: developers try to optimize their sources to
>> > spare every single bit to run the program even on a 386, and then the
>> > 386 is supposed to have a T1 connection to get the package)
>>
>> If you think there is all too much downloading with Gentoo, then you may
>> have picked the wrong distro, you should in that case gone with one
>> providing you with binary packages instead of a meta-distro.
>>
>>
>>
>> //Aho
>
> Binaries are available... browse gentoo.org and track them down... If you
> can't burn a live gentoo dvd, I'll happily send you one FREE. Email me if
> you need one. mcbrides9@comcast.net
>
> NOW... THAT,S LINUX ADVOCACY.
>
> --
>
> Jerry McBride