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opensas
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 Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: ISO cd with apps sources for gentooers with slow connections |
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Hi all
I've just been reading the following thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6468
I think it´s a great idea 
Does anybody knows if there´s some place where people can download cds images with the source code for most popular applications?
Saludos
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killfire
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:51 am Post subject: Re: ISO cd with apps sources for gentooers with slow connect |
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| opensas wrote: | Hi all
I've just been reading the following thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6468
I think it´s a great idea
Does anybody knows if there´s some place where people can download cds images with the source code for most popular applications?
Saludos
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on your gentoo box run this command:
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emerge -pf someapp > sources.txt
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i assume that the computer that has the fast internet connection isnt the gentoo box...
so copy that file over, and then use it to collect the sources (if its *nix you can feed them into wget or equivelent) if its windows then you will have some trouble, but its doable.
i did that before when i could only connect to the internet in my macos partition.. i had to reboot every time to get the sources...
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opensas
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Thanks for the tip, killfire.
I´ve just installed a wget version for windows, so next nomday I´ll give it a try at the office.
Nevertheless, it would be much easier if there would be a sources cd available for all of us.
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killfire
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| opensas wrote: | Thanks for the tip, killfire.
I´ve just installed a wget version for windows, so next nomday I´ll give it a try at the office.
Nevertheless, it would be much easier if there would be a sources cd available for all of us.
Saludos
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unfortunately, thats not really feasible...
at the speed that gentoo is adding new packages, how would the cd be even slightly up-to-date? every couple of days an update would need to come out, and the trouble to load that onto all the mirrors would be a killer...
also, what would you get, stable or unstable? what if something you want the unstable, etc......
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opensas
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Well, I was thinking about something pretty similar to the package cd that comes with every new version of gentoo, but instead of delivering the compiled binaries, I would provide the sources, so that you could compile them with your USE settings.
On the same CD there would be a copy of the current snapshot. And I would only put the stable versions of the most popular apps (xorg, gnome, kde, openoffice, koffice, apache, mysql, etc...). The rest, you´d have to emerge them the usual way, but at least you´d save yourself from downloading the heaviests packages.
It´s just an idea.
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killfire
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| opensas wrote: | Well, I was thinking about something pretty similar to the package cd that comes with every new version of gentoo, but instead of delivering the compiled binaries, I would provide the sources, so that you could compile them with your USE settings.
On the same CD there would be a copy of the current snapshot. And I would only put the stable versions of the most popular apps (xorg, gnome, kde, openoffice, koffice, apache, mysql, etc...). The rest, you´d have to emerge them the usual way, but at least you´d save yourself from downloading the heaviests packages.
It´s just an idea.
Saludos
Sas |
yeah, i would think that would be more logical than giving binaries, i mean, gentoo is all about source...
also what they could do is have an online emerge -pf tool...
so you just put in what you need, and it gives you a list of all the files you are going to need...
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