installing from DVD should give the chance to select DVD's distfiles directory as a mirror of the distro. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.symlink distfiles repository on HD to DVD's one Actual Results: portage started looking for mirrors on the 'net Expected Results: no result, but allow me to set up in make.conf an option to tell portage to look distfiles in another place (and then "downloading" them wherever he wants) i am trying to install on a 9.1 Gig HD and the repository fills up my HD :-(
skyfw@kyoto ssh $ cat /etc/make.conf | grep distfiles #DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles Nothing stops you from mounting the DVD and setting DISTDIR to /mount/dvd/directory...
Like alec said, you can override DISTDIR to point at other locations, even from commandline. Transferring files back to my offline box, I override DISTDIR to point at a mouned usb drive for example.
