[plug] Debian .vs. Gentoo (long!)

[William Kenworthy]

"emerge -f <package>" is the command: it will download the specified
package, and dependencies to the cache and exit.  Useful in cronjobs
etc., an occaisionally on dialup as mentioned.  I have the fetch set to
use wget with a bandwidth limit on the gateway (to avoid complaints from
the family) and rsync internally to download them to the local machine,
or serv the packages via an nfs mount.

Simultaneous download/build has been asked for, but its been a long time
coming!  You can do multiple builds at the same time, but checking that
one doesnt step on another is your responsibility, so its risky, but I
often do it.  If a build fails, I just kick it off again, in the right
order (that is, wait until a common dependency is built before
restarting)

BillK

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 20:40, Sham Chukoury wrote:
...
> 
> > Gentoo's package manager normally downloads a package, compiles it,
> > installs it, then moves onto the next package.  Debian, on the other
> > hand, will fetch all of the packages at the start and then install them.
> > Ideally, for a source-based distro, you'd want to see the compilation
> > and downloading happening simultaneously; last time I looked at doing
> > this under Gentoo, you could end up with corrupted source packages.
> 
...

> I was tinkering with the Gentoo 1.4 livecd a while ago, and saw some
> option which was said to be of some benefit to users on dialup. I didn't
> pay much attention at the time since I'd just gotten on adsl and thought
> "dial up? pfft.." ;P Anyways, I do believe that option was meant to
> somehow change the behaviour of portage so that it would download a few
> packages, or something like that, instead of downloading and building a 
> whole stack of packages.
> Maybe google for "portage dial up gentoo"
> 
> 



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