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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection | ||
| Date: | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:55:16 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20060818085114.3370c7a7@hactar.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection by Bira |
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| 1 | On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:48:04 -0300, Bira wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an |
| 4 | > "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with |
| 5 | > the zipped files Portage will download. Then copy the files over to |
| 6 | > your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and emerge normally. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | That will only work for certain if your friend has an identical setup, |
| 9 | both in terms of USE flags and packages installed. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Neil Bothwick |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Do I BELIEVE in the Bible?! HELL man, I've SEEN one!!! |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection | Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> |