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On 3/6/06, jed mallen <jedmallen@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have an old gentoo box (2.6.11-r3) that has no internet access at |
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> home which I'm trying to resurrect. |
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> I have another box at work that has internet access running XP. |
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> What do I need to do to update my gentoo box at home? |
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> I got some distfiles/* from the mirrors and copied them to |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles at home. |
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> But everytime I do emerge (eg: "emerge package" or "emerge -k |
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> package"), it still tries to connect to the internet (which I don't |
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> have) looking for the package I want to install. |
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> What am I doing wrong? |
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First, update your portage tree (check one of my questions to the list): |
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http://www.archivum.info/gentoo-user@l.g.o/2006-02/msg00122.html |
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Then get the distfiles: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine |
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The rest is piece of cake... |
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Good luck. |
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> Thanks and more power to gentoo.org. |
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Amem. |
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