On Saturday 08 July 2006 18:29, Steven Joseph wrote:

On Thursday 06 July 2006 23:10, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:

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I have been using Gentoo with amd64 and ~amd64 mixed for a few months now. Works just fine. Only.. no xvidtune yet :(

hi, thats great, the problem i'm facing is that i do not have a great internet connection is there any way to download the packages .... somewhere else. Like in debian apt u can do a 'apt-get install --print-uris <package>' to get a list of links which i can dl on a win machine on any cyber. Is thereanything like that on gentoo emerge.

I have never needed it, so I don't know yet. I'll do some research. In the meantime, you could do an 'emerge -pv --fetchonly package' which will print out the list of complete URLs for the package, like this:

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/kdegraphics-3.5.3.tar.bz2 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/kdegraphi... http://ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/3.5.3/src/kdegraphics-3.5.3.tar.bz... ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/3.5.3/src/kdegraphics-3.5.3.tar.bz2 ftp://download.au.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.3/src/kdegraphics-3.5.3.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.3/src/kdegraphics-3.5.3.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.3/src/kdegraphics-3.5.3.tar.bz2

These are the default Gentoo mirrors followed by the fallback to the original package location. I think your list of mirrors will also show up first. I haven't specified any in /etc/make.conf.

A small bash script could easily clean up the messy output.

HTH, Mrugesh