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you can copy portage and distro files from connected machine (i.e it |
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will just serve as your local mirror), but you need to run emerge -Du |
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world on the unconnected machine, since it has different CFLAGS |
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On 04/29/10 11:42, Frank Peters wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> |
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> I have Gentoo installed on a machine that has no connection to |
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> the Internet. The configuration of this machine is very similar |
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> to another machine, which _has_ an Internet connection, also running |
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> Gentoo. Only the CFLAGS variable differ. |
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> |
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> Would it be possible to keep this unconnected Gentoo machine updated |
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> by simply copying the entire portage directory, including distribution |
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> files, from the connected machine? |
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> |
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> I need to know what happens after doing "emerge --sync" followed |
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> by "emerge -Du world". I assume that only the portage directory |
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> is affected, that is, only those directories defined by the |
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> PORTDIR, DISTDIR, PKGDIR, PORT_LOGDIR, PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and |
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> PORTAGE_TMPDIR variables in the file make.conf. If this is |
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> true, then copying those directories to the the unconnected |
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> machine would allow me to update that machine, using emerge, |
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> in parallel with the conected machine and without needing an |
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> Internet connection. |
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> |
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> Would this method be feasible? Unless I am overlooking some details |
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> of the emerge process, I don't see any problems with it. |
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> |
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> Frank Peters |
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