Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Sneakernet

[Stroller]

On 4 Aug 2007, at 00:12, Richard Marz wrote:
> ...
>> Networkless box:
>>     $ emerge -fpv world > foo.txt
>>
>> Sneaker foo.txt to networked box and:
>>     $ for foo in foo.txt ; do wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/distfiles/
>> $foo ; done
>>
>> Should approximately do the trick.
>>
>> Stroller.
>
> Thanks for the help, Stroller. But that command did not work so well.
> wget translated $foo to foo.txt instead of reading line line in
> foo.txt.
> I managed to get wget to fetch the files in foo.txt by running:
>
> cat foo.txt |xargs -- wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/distfiles/ -

I think that was a copy & paste error on my part.

I think the command I ended up using was:
   $ for foo in `cat foo.txt` ; do wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/ 
distfiles/

But I'm glad you got it sorted in the end.

Stroller.
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