Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

[BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>]

--- Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:16 -0800, BRM wrote:
> [snip]
> > However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the
> long
> > term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a
> lot
> > of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution similar to the
> > following:
> > # tar xvjf /portage-sources-<data>.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage-sources
> > # tar xvjf /portage-<date>.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage
> > # emerge --sync --portage-source /my-portage
> > # emerge world -vuD --sources /my-portage-sources
> This has come up before, so I know some people here have a bit of
> experience with doing it.  Essentially it's possible.  I think the
> steps
> required are:
> 
> - download a portage snapshot as you would in an initial install, or
> create your own from another gentoo machine (more info here:
>
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5#installing_portage)
> - you may need to run `emerge --metadata` after unpacking it, or
> something like that - someone else can comment here :)
> - then follow your manual download instructions: `emerge -ufpDN
> world`
> and download all these packages on another box
> - transfer the packages to /usr/portage/distfiles, and check you got
> them all with `emerge -ufDN world`.  You should have no fetch errors.
> - then go! `emerge -uvaDN world`
> 
> Notes:
> - when creating your own snapshot,
> exclude /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/portage/packages, (and others?)
> - I would recommend -N as you might see some new features since you
> haven't updated in a while
> 
> Hopefully someone will fix any holes I left, otherwise this should
> work!

Thanks. I'll have to see about giving it a try; not sure how well it'll
work on the one system; and I'll have to run it past my other admins
for the other system. Any how...

Thanks.

Ben
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