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Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> On 1/19/07, Jens Kubieziel <kubieziel@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet |
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>> connection. |
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>> We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We thought about |
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>> redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI} |
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>> > package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is |
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>> the best way |
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>> to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget? |
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>> |
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>> Thanks for any recommendations |
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> There are many ways of doying this, and what you've tried will most |
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> certainly not work :-), try something like: |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine |
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> There are more tips regarding this at the Wiki, check Google too... |
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I have a poor internet connection, I've found emerge --fetchonly to be |
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great. There's also a TIP for portage on dialup on the Gentoo wiki. Do a |
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search for it on Google. Hope this helps. |
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Best Regards. |
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Avaricen |
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