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On Monday 13 February 2006 19:40, Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, |
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> but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly |
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> configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every |
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> time. |
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> Is there another way to update portage tree? For my first update I |
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> downloaded the snapshot and decompressed it directly to the filesystem |
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> (but that requires a reboot and its kinda "brute force"). Is there a |
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> way to download the snapshot and make emerge or even emerge-webrsync |
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> to use the downloaded file instead of trying to download a new one? |
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There is no reason to reboot after extracting a portage snapshot directly to |
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the filesystem. It's not brute force, it's just one of the possible ways to |
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update your package tree. |
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