Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

[João Matos]

A few years ago, I used to run gentoo offline. When I needed to update it,
I used to download the portage snapshot, and use the following script,
based on Gentoo handbook:

#!/bin/bash
mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/
rm -rf /usr/portage/
tar xvjf $1 -C /usr
mv /usr/distfiles /usr/portage/
emerge --metadata
emerge --regen

I also have another script to built a list of packages for download. You
can take this list to a connected place, download the files and put it into
/usr/portage/distfiles/. If useful, I can give it to you (but I don't know
if it still works).


2012/9/16 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0200
> > Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen@×××.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> can i copy the portage tree from my Notebook to the desktop PC?
> > Yes. There is only one tree, not different one for different arches.
> >
> > So it does not matter where you get your tree from, only that you do
> > have a copy.
> >
> > Do make sure that owners and permissions are set to something that will
> > work on the destination after the copy.
> >
> >
>
> It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge
> --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago?  I think that would
> take care of Bryan's concerns too.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
> how you interpreted my words!
>
>
>


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João de Matos
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Graduando em Engenharia de Computação 2005.1
UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana