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Raffaele Belardi wrote:
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> I have gentoo system A (~x86) on a network that does not allow portage |
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> access to internet due to some authentication issue. System B (~amd64) |
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> is on another network with no such restrictions. |
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> To bypass the restrictions I made a copy of A on a removable media, |
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> chroot into it from B and 'emerge-webrsync; emerge --fetchonly' from |
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> there. Then attach the media to A and overwrite /usr/portage with the |
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> updated one from the removable media. |
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> This works but updating the chroot from B always re-downloads all the |
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> packages since the first time I created the chroot, not only those from |
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> the last update. I suppose portage maintains a database of the installed |
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> packages that I need to copy back to the removable media after each |
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> system A update, but where is it? |
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I suppose the database I'm looking for is /var/db/pkg, right?
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