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From: Henti Smith <bain@×××××××.za>
To: Yavor Goulishev <yavor.goulishev@××××××.bg>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:57:54
Message-Id: 20030210125915.3f474f4f.bain@tcsn.co.za
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem by Yavor Goulishev
1 On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:43:24 +0200
2 "Yavor Goulishev" <yavor.goulishev@××××××.bg> wrote:
3
4 > Hi Henti,
5 > You can use emerge -f <package> to download the source.
6 > Also you can use emerge -p -f <package> to get the URLs.
7 > The emerge <package> command looks for the files downloaded in
8 > $DISTDIR which can be set in /etc/make.conf and by default
9 > point to /usr/portage/distfiles.
10 > So you can download the files the way you want (event on other machine)and then
11 > copy them in $DISTDIR .The emerge will find them ;-))
12
13 need modem drivers to get online ...
14
15 even only to get ebuilds ... this is for a machine I want to install
16 there is no installed machine already ...
17
18 so it's a chicken and eg problem
19
20 Henti
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