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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GCqes-0006r4-KS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:36:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7F4XxZj009140; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:33:59 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7F4Vmcp012434 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:31:49 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB47164667 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10398-05 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:31:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E0C646A1 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so395820pyb for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:31:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=hlGPmrom9WWFR/1i4DI4CNeYANjsXdOiPo9CHR8WlOi+BS9DQSPQTRzc71UaoHtgEmgj55naEPynTYdjVkhMTz4PQ/PzCkTdj4P8vcM+9DYK0/QSwAjL+sHkRaxo2/fuckuISO0uTcXATMF3uHslN0cAIfN88sQDdjiLtDwiZ1s= Received: by 10.35.100.6 with SMTP id c6mr14778853pym; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.30.16 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:31:41 -0800 From: "Jed R. Mallen" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.337 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=2.062, BAYES_00=-2.599, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2] X-Spam-Score: -0.337 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 46ffb019-b153-430e-9148-168a80e55ae2 X-Archives-Hash: 9536a889393a7b8071af9ecb336cc0f5 hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages instead of trying to download the pkgs, bring the list of links at work, then download the pkgs there? is this possible? thanks much -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list