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On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:38:13 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> > I have gentoo system A (~x86) on a network that does not allow portage |
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> > access to internet due to some authentication issue. System B (~amd64) |
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> > is on another network with no such restrictions. |
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> > To bypass the restrictions I made a copy of A on a removable media, |
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> > chroot into it from B and 'emerge-webrsync; emerge --fetchonly' from |
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> > there. Then attach the media to A and overwrite /usr/portage with the |
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> > updated one from the removable media. |
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> > This works but updating the chroot from B always re-downloads all the |
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> > packages since the first time I created the chroot, not only those |
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> > from the last update. I suppose portage maintains a database of the |
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> > installed packages that I need to copy back to the removable media |
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> > after each system A update, but where is it? |
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> I suppose the database I'm looking for is /var/db/pkg, right? |
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/var/lib/portage/world - this needs to be in sync in the two environments. |
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Are the two computers networked together? If so, you could run |
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http_replicator on B and it would download the packages for A. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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OK Scotty, NOW! Detonate and energize! I mean....... |
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