Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file

[Avaricen <avaricen@gmail.com>]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Jens Kubieziel <kubieziel@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet 
>> connection.
>> We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We thought about
>> redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
>> > package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is
>> the best way
>> to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?
>>
>> Thanks for any recommendations
>
> There are many ways of doying this, and what you've tried will most
> certainly not work :-), try something like:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine
>
> There are more tips regarding this at the Wiki, check Google too...
>
I have a poor internet connection, I've found emerge --fetchonly to be 
great. There's also a TIP for portage on dialup on the Gentoo wiki. Do a 
search for it on Google. Hope this helps.

Best Regards.
Avaricen

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