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ottbr
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:47 pm Post subject: Distfiles |
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I have a large number of Distfiles stored in bzip format on my usb hard drive, is there anyway I can use these instead of downloading all the packages again?
It seems to me the last time I tried a direct copy to the distfiles directory in portage, it just redownloaded the files.
Now supposing I am stuck, what files would I backup so I wouldn't have to redownload all the packages again if I had to reinstall?
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bsolar
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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If you copy them in /usr/portage/distfiles of the new installed portage they should be used.
Maybe you downloaded packages because new version were available?
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ottbr
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This maybe the case, my observations were not all that keen as I was multitasking at the time.
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Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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