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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Sneakernet
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:07:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708010807.29380.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185933198.29215.8.camel@localhost>

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On Wednesday 01 August 2007 02:53, Richard Marz wrote:
> I have a networkless box that I've gentoo installed on. I grabbed the
> latest portage snapshot from one of the mirrors. I ran emerge -DNeF
> world and system on my networked machine to try and fetch every possible
> file needed to install my world and system programs. Then I tarred the
> distfiles directory which was about 2.5GB and dumped it
> into /usr/portage/ on my networkless box. When installing certain
> programs on my networkless pc; It complains about not being able to
> fetch some package dependencies. Is there an emerge option/switch that I
> can use to make sure I fetch every possible depedency/package for every
> package in my world and system set. The portage snapshots and distfiles
> are in sync. Thanks.

I have noticed that certain packages will always try to download the latest 
sources.  The only way out that I know of is to modify the ebuild file.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01  1:53 [gentoo-user] Portage Sneakernet Richard Marz
2007-08-01  6:12 ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-08-01  7:07 ` Mick [this message]
2007-08-01  8:31 ` Stroller
2007-08-03 23:12   ` Richard Marz
2007-08-04 14:43     ` Stroller

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