From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qronk-0004SU-6V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:17:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD0BC21C213; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3355C21C1EC for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5711B4040 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:16:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.939 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.939 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.660, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] 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 ePMvSIBHWtK6 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EEC1B4063 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QromN-0006rK-5A for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:15:51 +0200 Received: from athedsl-374249.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.13.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:15:51 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-374249.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:15:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating a Standalone Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:16:10 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4E44F92F.2000004@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-374249.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <4E44F92F.2000004@optonline.net> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 908c77343a59f56aa12e3673dc6f873d On 08/12/2011 12:58 PM, dhk wrote: > I have a Gentoo Box that is a standalone with no internet access. Is > there a way I can update it by using my laptop? > > It would be nice to be able to sync a copy of my world list on my laptop > without clobbering my laptop's world list. Then do a fetch for the > standalone world and when on the console pf the standalone do the update > to the fetched packages on the laptop. The idea is not to have the > laptop as an image of the standalone, but as a server to sync to while > keeping the laptop's world separate. Er, can't you just give the box Internet access by using the laptop's connection?