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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:48:04 -0300, Bira wrote: |
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> > Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an |
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> > "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with |
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> > the zipped files Portage will download. Then copy the files over to |
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> > your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and emerge normally. |
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> That will only work for certain if your friend has an identical setup, |
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> both in terms of USE flags and packages installed. |
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The best way to do this is to use emerge to tell you exactly what |
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sources it wants to download, get this info into a file then use wget on |
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a different machine to read this file and download the sources: |
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emerge -pvf world 2>&1 > emerge.txt |
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gives a list of files to be downloaded. Bash this file into shape with |
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something like |
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cat emerge.txt | cut -f1 -d' ' | grep -e '^http://' | sort | \ |
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uniq > emerge1.txt |
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Use wget on the other machine to do the downloads: |
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wget -c -i emerge1.txt |
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copy these downloads to /usr/portage/distfiles on the gentoo machine and |
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run |
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emerge -avuND world |
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It might even succeed! I do this, as the company pipe is only 512k and |
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it's maxed out during office hours. To be polite to everyone else I |
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download after hours using the above and a neat cron job. It's more work |
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for me, but hey, at least I get to keep my friends at work :-) |
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alan |
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