[gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hi,

a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet connection.
We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We thought about
redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
> package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is
the best way
to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?

Thanks for any recommendations
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Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 19 January 2007 18:18, Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet
> connection. We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages.
> We thought about redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like
> 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
>
> > package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What
> > is
>
> the best way
> to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?
>
> Thanks for any recommendations

FETCHCOMMAND is what portage uses to fetch stuff. Once it has run, 
portage expects $stuff to be there. What you have done is made sure the 
portage won't try to download it at all, so of course it won't work.

I normally run 'emerge -pvf' to get a list of URIs to download, then 
bash it into shape to get a text file listing, and send that to wget -i

Something like:

emerge -pvf world > emerge.lst
cat emerge.lst | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq > emerge.1.lst
[inspect emerge.1.lst manually and remove cruft]
wget -i emerge.1.lst

This can of course be improved tremendously. It only tries the first URI 
for any given file (because of the cut), and it always attempts to 
download every file for every package to be merged (as I haven't found 
an easy way to get just a list of stuff not in distfiles)

I'm sure you could do a better job with a bit of work, this just happens 
to suit my particular needs

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 1/19/07, Jens Kubieziel <kubieziel@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet connection.
> We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We thought about
> redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
> > package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is
> the best way
> to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?
>
> Thanks for any recommendations

There are many ways of doying this, and what you've tried will most
certainly not work :-), try something like:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine

There are more tips regarding this at the Wiki, check Google too...

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Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Friday 19 January 2007 17:18, Jens Kubieziel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet
> connection. We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We
> thought about redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like
> 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
>
> > package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is
>
> the best way
> to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?

Not sure of what you mean, isn't that something that can be constructed 
massaging the output of emerge -fp ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Avaricen]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Jens Kubieziel <kubieziel@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet 
>> connection.
>> We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We thought about
>> redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
>> > package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is
>> the best way
>> to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?
>>
>> Thanks for any recommendations
>
> There are many ways of doying this, and what you've tried will most
> certainly not work :-), try something like:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine
>
> There are more tips regarding this at the Wiki, check Google too...
>
I have a poor internet connection, I've found emerge --fetchonly to be 
great. There's also a TIP for portage on dialup on the Gentoo wiki. Do a 
search for it on Google. Hope this helps.

Best Regards.
Avaricen

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Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Jens Kubieziel]

2007/1/19, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>:
> Not sure of what you mean, isn't that something that can be constructed
> massaging the output of emerge -fp ?

Well, I actually never tried emerge -f with the -p-option.
But it works like charm.
Thanks a lot.
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Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Jens Kubieziel]

2007/1/19, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine
> There are more tips regarding this at the Wiki, check Google too...

As I wrote in my other answer it works. Thanks for your hints.
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