Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble fetching all required files for network-less machine

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 24 September 2007, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
> I'm trying to fetch all possible files including those that might
> satisfy dependencies and USE flags for every package on my system.
> The reason I'm doing this is because I have a network-less machine
> that I wish to transfer these files to so that I may have the same
> environment on both machines. But every so often a package fails to
> install because of failure to fetch dependencies. On my networked
> machine I run emerge -efD world and emerge -fD system it fetches
> files and completes without errors. I then take a copy of the
> distfiles dir to the networkless machine and run emerge k3b, for
> example, and it fails because it was unable to fetch some dependent
> file. This after I ran the same command on my networked machine and
> moving distfiles to my networkless box. Both profiles on the two
> machines are identical and they use the same USE flags. How can I
> make sure that every possible or contingent file is fetch? For
> example...I might not use the mp3 USE flag or any other use flag for
> a program but I would like it to satisfy all possible FLAGS when
> fetching...How can I go about doing that?

Do two things:

Use 'emerge -F' instead of 'emerge -f'
Use 'emerge --with-bdeps y'

-F will fetch everything in SRC_URI regardless of USE settings etc.

--with-bdeps is more complex. Basically, sometimes a dep is required to 
build a package but not to run it. This setting either includes or 
excludes such things in it's emerge calculations.

Both options are more fully described in 'man emerge'

alan


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