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On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:51:57 -0300 |
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"Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote the words: |
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> There are alternative ways to update portage that are more suited to |
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> your dial-up connection. |
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> ########### Extracted from |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153842 |
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> Download a snapshot (you can find one in any gentoo mirror), and |
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> download the md5sum, move it to $PORTAGE_TMPDIR/emerge-webrsync and |
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> run "emerge-webrsync", it will use those without downloading a new |
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> snapshot. |
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> Or, you can manually do the sync yourself. Extract the |
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> portage-snapshot into a directory, and then use the following command: |
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> rsync -av --progress --stats --delete --delete-after \ |
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> --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/packages' \ |
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> --exclude='/local' . ${PORTDIR%%/} |
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> Either define PORTDIR, or replace that with the location of your |
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> portage tree (/usr/portage by default). |
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> ########### |
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> Give it a try... |
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Oh, thank you. I will try this over the weekend. I still have had no |
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success with other tactics. I'll let ya know how it goes. |
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