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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Sneakernet
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:31:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D6C9D06-C204-4025-A781-8933166BC2D1@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185933198.29215.8.camel@localhost>


On 1 Aug 2007, at 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.

Networkless box:
    $ emerge -fpv world > foo.txt

Sneaker foo.txt to networked box and:
    $ for foo in foo.txt ; do wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/distfiles/  
$foo ; done

Should approximately do the trick.

Stroller.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01  8:37 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
2007-08-01  8:31 ` Stroller [this message]
2007-08-03 23:12   ` Richard Marz
2007-08-04 14:43     ` Stroller

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