Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

["Steve B." <linuxcodehacker@gmail.com>]

On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote:
> Steve B. wrote:
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> >   This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this
> > one out.  I can't emerge UT2004.  I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom
> > (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to
> > umount and mount the second CD.  It simply tries (and thinks it has
> > success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data
> > from CD1 six times.
> >
> > This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on
> > linux, so any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Unfortunately, the ebuild for ut2004 is very brain dead about that.
> Curiously, it USED to do exactly what you said: let you swap CD's.
>
> The only way I figured out how to accomplish the install from CD's was
> to copy every single CD to the hard disk, which obviously takes up a lot
> of space and time.
>
> Like so:
>
> rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 1
> rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 2
>
> And so on through 6. 6 is the disk labeled install disk, I think. Then
> set CD_ROOT_1=/full/path/to/1 CD_ROOT_2=/full/path/to/2 CD_ROOT_....
> emerge ut2004
>
> Feel free to use cp, i prefer to use rsync.
>
> The next problem you will run into (or it might come before you even get
> to the CD's, i forget) is that portage will try to download various
> large files from 3dgamers mirrors. Almost all of which time out or are
> unreachable, or uselessly slow. I've found that I have to go to google
> and look for the filename, find it somewhere else, save it to
> /usr/portage/distfiles and home the md5sums match. Make sure the
> filename is as portage expects it too, including case.
>
> There are bugs open about all of these issues, but they just haven't
> been solved yet.
>
> ut2004 is one of the most irritating peices of software to install on
> gentoo, especially from CD's, thanks to all of this.
Thanks! I got everything working now.  But that was a pain in the rear.  
Somebody should really update the ebuild in portage.
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