From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H7zqd-0000xG-53 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:56:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0JJtEZh027271; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:55:14 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0JJoZBa014778 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:50:36 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so976322wxd for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:50:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=S7Qt1H1aUSSjyWSNf45kcBG9p1i0GXle4IX6lIQUqG4AFioGRDvUWkvyTKyLoU2nC10K9mYuXKD6iih8/xPi59IO4nQUKbhif7moRo2w+FyNHINzluP+1zpMg8tiuUCKMMuyHjTMLtw/BN1ZheomTVkmIeU+XJj6UBnLnfEbkHk= Received: by 10.70.38.9 with SMTP id l9mr2873959wxl.1169236235303; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.105? ( [62.173.36.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h39sm4411690wxd.2007.01.19.11.50.32; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:50:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45B12F24.4050702@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:50:44 +0000 From: Avaricen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070115) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] write 'emerge -f' to a file References: <76ee5f990701190818x7961d4c3k38c9265409c6974a@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090701190909w7bc3d57fx3677291432badd61@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <342e1090701190909w7bc3d57fx3677291432badd61@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b7374406-cafe-486d-bab4-eaf172a23717 X-Archives-Hash: 5b2504ff2218f8c2116e92d242a66526 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 1/19/07, Jens Kubieziel 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list