[gentoo-user] Portage, network less install and Apache, MySQL, PHP

[Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

I just managed to install (network less Universal CD install) Gentoo
on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM (yeah, it was hard, but I got the
fastest system this poor hardware ever had), its working fine with
minimal on everything, but as I have limited network access (proxy), I
can't update, neither the usual emerge --sync nor emerge-webrsync
works, the RSYNC is blocked for sure, and I suppose webrsync is trying
to download something (all downloads are filtered, except for some
extensions, but tar.bz2 and tar.gz are filtered).

I scheduled the download of the last portage tree (snapshot) and MySQL
and Apache latest versions and its dependencies, but I'm pretty sure I
won't be able to install them, because when calculating dependencies,
emerge fails (too old for the latest versions, and they're masked).

So, I ask:

1) If I get the latest snapshot, will it be like an "emerge --sync"?
2) If I download all packages and dependencies, will I be able to
install the masked version after pretending the "sync" with the
snapshot?
3) Has anyone tried this?

If I manage to install it, I'll get like 4 new servers using
replication with hardware that would be trash nowadays (that's good
for business).

Thanks for all answers,

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Daniel da Veiga
Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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