Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

[Norberto Bensa <nbensa@gmx.net>]

Nick Rout wrote:
>
> portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it
> where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it!

What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to 
remove path names (i.e. http://download.from.server.tld/path/to/filename.tgz 
becomes filename.tgz) 

>
> for package in `cat packlist` ; do DISTDIR=/where/ever/i/want emerge
> --nodeps -f =$package; done

This assumes _both_ machines have Gentoo _and_ exactly the same USE flags.

>
> --nodeps will make sure that your connected host doesn't substitute its
> own idea of what the deps are (perhaps based on different USE flags)

In most cases, you will end with partially downloaded packages.


> In other words let your network connected host choose where to download
> from.

My method, although not the best, works under Windows and other OSes too ;-) 


>
> --
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

Best regards,
Norberto


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