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Nick Rout wrote: |
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> portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it |
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> where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it! |
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What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to |
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remove path names (i.e. http://download.from.server.tld/path/to/filename.tgz |
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becomes filename.tgz) |
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> for package in `cat packlist` ; do DISTDIR=/where/ever/i/want emerge |
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> --nodeps -f =$package; done |
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This assumes _both_ machines have Gentoo _and_ exactly the same USE flags. |
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> --nodeps will make sure that your connected host doesn't substitute its |
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> own idea of what the deps are (perhaps based on different USE flags) |
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In most cases, you will end with partially downloaded packages. |
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> In other words let your network connected host choose where to download |
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> from. |
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My method, although not the best, works under Windows and other OSes too ;-) |
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> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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Best regards, |
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Norberto |
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Norberto Bensa |
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Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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