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I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long |
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time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue |
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I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near identical system that |
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might get Gentoo 2007 installed. Both are on two separate networks and |
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have no communication between them. |
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The first system does have some Internet access through a firewall, but |
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it doesn't really work, at least for this purpose; so it's just as good |
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as not having any access at all for this purpose. |
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The second system may or may not have Internet access, so for now let's |
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just assume it doesn't. It's really this second system that I want to |
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figure the problem out for. |
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In either case, I can't update portage using the normal method of |
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'emerge --sync'. So, I'm trying to figure out a solution that would |
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enable me to update the systems. Under Slackware, I'd just point |
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pkgtool to the CD media and install from that, just like during |
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installation. Is there a similar approach for Gentoo? How do I overcome |
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the source mirror issue too so that the systems don't try to download |
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stuff from the web? |
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I could probably host an rsync server on the local systems to host |
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portage, but how would I keep it up to date? Would I simply be able to |
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extract a tarball into the directory rsync is serving up? |
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I can get large tarballs or ISOs from other systems to these systems; |
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but they won't be able to download them themselves. |
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I noticed the Manual Download info in the FAQ: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#manualdownload |
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However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the long |
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term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a lot |
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of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution similar to the |
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following: |
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# tar xvjf /portage-sources-<data>.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage-sources |
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# tar xvjf /portage-<date>.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage |
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# emerge --sync --portage-source /my-portage |
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# emerge world -vuD --sources /my-portage-sources |
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If there isn't a solution, I might look into how to make a solution |
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(not sure). |
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TIA, |
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Ben |
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