[gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Jed R. Mallen]

hello,

i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home.
i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP.

can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my
gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the
needed packages instead of trying to download the pkgs, bring the list
of links at work, then download the pkgs there?

is this possible?

thanks much
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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Ryan Tandy]

Jed R. Mallen wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home.
> i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP.
> 
> can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my
> gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the
> needed packages instead of trying to download the pkgs, bring the list
> of links at work, then download the pkgs there?
> 
> is this possible?
> 
> thanks much

Try 'emerge -fpuDN world'.  WARNING: The list will likely be VERY long. 
  It'll output multiple possible sources for each file - any one will do 
although the first one listed is likely to be the fastest.

As for the portage tree update, simply download 
snapshots/portage-latest.tbz2' from your favorite mirror, untar it to 
/usr/portage, and run emerge --metadata (<-- important!) to update your 
tree.

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Matthias Guede]

Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Jed R. Mallen wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home.
>> i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP.
>>
>> can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my
>> gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the
>> needed packages instead of trying to download the pkgs, bring the list
>> of links at work, then download the pkgs there?
>>
>> is this possible?
>>
>> thanks much
> 
> Try 'emerge -fpuDN world'.  WARNING: The list will likely be VERY long. 
>  It'll output multiple possible sources for each file - any one will do 
> although the first one listed is likely to be the fastest.
> 
> As for the portage tree update, simply download 
> snapshots/portage-latest.tbz2' from your favorite mirror, untar it to 
> /usr/portage, and run emerge --metadata (<-- important!) to update your 
> tree.
> 
> HTH.

There is also an article about this on gentoo-wiki:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine

But I never tried it myself.


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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 8/15/06, Matthias Guede <matthias.guede@web.de> wrote:
> Ryan Tandy wrote:
> > Jed R. Mallen wrote:
> >> hello,
> >>
> >> i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home.
> >> i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP.
> >>
> >> can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my
> >> gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the
> >> needed packages instead of trying to download the pkgs, bring the list
> >> of links at work, then download the pkgs there?
> >>
> >> is this possible?
> >>
> >> thanks much
> >
> > Try 'emerge -fpuDN world'.  WARNING: The list will likely be VERY long.
> >  It'll output multiple possible sources for each file - any one will do
> > although the first one listed is likely to be the fastest.
> >
> > As for the portage tree update, simply download
> > snapshots/portage-latest.tbz2' from your favorite mirror, untar it to
> > /usr/portage, and run emerge --metadata (<-- important!) to update your
> > tree.
> >
> > HTH.
>
> There is also an article about this on gentoo-wiki:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine
>
> But I never tried it myself.
>

I did, worked like a charm... Simply download the portage snapshot,
uncompress it, emerge metadata (there are easier ways, check the list
archives for a thread of my own about "update portage"), and follow
the guide, pretty simple.

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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Jed R. Mallen]

thank you all. thank you very much. this is what i really need. thanks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Bira]

On 8/17/06, Jed R. Mallen <jedmallen@gmail.com> wrote:
> thank you all. thank you very much. this is what i really need. thanks.
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Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an
"emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with
the zipped files Portage will download. Then copy the files over to
your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and emerge normally.

You can probably do the same thing with the ebuilds (i.e., "emerge
--sync", burn the ebuild directories to a CD, copy to your machine),
but I don't know how "healthy" that is.


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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Justin Findlay]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:48:04PM -0300, Bira wrote:
> You can probably do the same thing with the ebuilds (i.e., "emerge
> --sync", burn the ebuild directories to a CD, copy to your machine),
> but I don't know how "healthy" that is.

I would just grab a portage snapshot with all those distfiles.  There
may be some script for this on gentooexperimental.org or somewhere in
the forums or wiki.


Justin
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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:48:04 -0300, Bira wrote:

> Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an
> "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with
> the zipped files Portage will download. Then copy the files over to
> your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and emerge normally.

That will only work for certain if your friend has an identical setup,
both in terms of USE flags and packages installed.


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Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

[Alan McKinnon]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:48:04 -0300, Bira wrote:
> 
> > Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an
> > "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with
> > the zipped files Portage will download. Then copy the files over to
> > your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and emerge normally.
> 
> That will only work for certain if your friend has an identical setup,
> both in terms of USE flags and packages installed.

The best way to do this is to use emerge to tell you exactly what
sources it wants to download, get this info into a file then use wget on
a different machine to read this file and  download the sources: 

	emerge -pvf world 2>&1 > emerge.txt

gives a list of files to be downloaded. Bash this file into shape with
something like

	cat emerge.txt | cut -f1 -d' ' |  grep -e '^http://' | sort |  \
	uniq > emerge1.txt

Use wget on the other machine to do the downloads:

	wget -c -i emerge1.txt

copy these downloads to /usr/portage/distfiles on the gentoo machine and
run

	emerge -avuND world

It might even succeed! I do this, as the company pipe is only 512k and
it's maxed out during office hours. To be polite to everyone else I
download after hours using the above and a neat cron job. It's more work
for me, but hey, at least I get to keep my friends at work :-)

alan


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