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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal |
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<GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm |
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> , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I |
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> need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... |
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> Even though it has only few packages installed it consumes a lot of disk |
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> space... that another problem im having. |
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> Thanks & Regards, |
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> |
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> Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service |
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> Center | Standard Chartered Bank |
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> (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *: |
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> GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@×××××××××××××××××.com |
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I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf |
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<package-name(s)>" to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the |
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output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and |
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remove the multiple urls. |
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Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as |
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simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When |
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you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the |
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files. |
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Copy the files you just downloaded to /usr/portage/dist and emerge the |
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package normally. |
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Here is a link to a project I used before: |
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http://www.tlug.org.za/wiki/index.php/Ogentools. I don't know if it's |
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still active? |
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The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it |
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up every now and then. Check the /var folder. When aborting ebuilds |
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with ctrl-c some files are left behind in /var/tmp/portage/. |
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Lastly I'd like to say, I feel for you, running gentoo offline can |
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sometimes be a painful process. |
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Regards |
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Dirk |
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