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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Sneakernet
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:43:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76E74DA9-04A2-4989-AFD2-DF76FB4358C9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186182755.11590.5.camel@localhost>


On 4 Aug 2007, at 00:12, Richard Marz wrote:
> ...
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for the help, Stroller. But that command did not work so well.
> wget translated $foo to foo.txt instead of reading line line in  
> foo.txt.
> I managed to get wget to fetch the files in foo.txt by running:
>
> cat foo.txt |xargs -- wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/distfiles/ -

I think that was a copy & paste error on my part.

I think the command I ended up using was:
   $ for foo in `cat foo.txt` ; do wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/ 
distfiles/

But I'm glad you got it sorted in the end.

Stroller.
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-04 14:51 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
2007-08-03 23:12   ` Richard Marz
2007-08-04 14:43     ` Stroller [this message]

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