Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, network less install and Apache, MySQL, PHP

[Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <raphael.melo21@gmail.com>]

Answer to 1:
Yes, if you download a portage-<timestamp>.tar.bz2 file and uncompress
it on /usr/portage, it has the same effect as emerge --sync. Actually,
to be more precise, the same effect as emerge-webrsync. Unforunately,
this consumes more bandwidth, since it downloads ebuilds you don't
need to update as well. But, in a proxy enviroment that doesn't allow
rsync, it is the only choice you have.

Answer to 2:
Portage doesn't really care how you download the source packages, as
long as they have the same md5sum. So, if you download them separetely
and move them to /usr/portage/distfiles, you should be fine.
Answer to 3:
See 1 and 2. :)

2005/9/30, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>:
> Greetings,
>
> I just managed to install (network less Universal CD install) Gentoo
> on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM (yeah, it was hard, but I got the
> fastest system this poor hardware ever had), its working fine with
> minimal on everything, but as I have limited network access (proxy), I
> can't update, neither the usual emerge --sync nor emerge-webrsync
> works, the RSYNC is blocked for sure, and I suppose webrsync is trying
> to download something (all downloads are filtered, except for some
> extensions, but tar.bz2 and tar.gz are filtered).
>
> I scheduled the download of the last portage tree (snapshot) and MySQL
> and Apache latest versions and its dependencies, but I'm pretty sure I
> won't be able to install them, because when calculating dependencies,
> emerge fails (too old for the latest versions, and they're masked).
>
> So, I ask:
>
> 1) If I get the latest snapshot, will it be like an "emerge --sync"?
> 2) If I download all packages and dependencies, will I be able to
> install the masked version after pretending the "sync" with the
> snapshot?
> 3) Has anyone tried this?
>
> If I manage to install it, I'll get like 4 new servers using
> replication with hardware that would be trash nowadays (that's good
> for business).
>
> Thanks for all answers,
>
> --
> Daniel da Veiga
> Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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