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--- Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:16 -0800, BRM wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the |
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> long |
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> > term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a |
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> 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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> This has come up before, so I know some people here have a bit of |
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> experience with doing it. Essentially it's possible. I think the |
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> steps |
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> required are: |
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> |
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> - download a portage snapshot as you would in an initial install, or |
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> create your own from another gentoo machine (more info here: |
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> |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5#installing_portage) |
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> - you may need to run `emerge --metadata` after unpacking it, or |
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> something like that - someone else can comment here :) |
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> - then follow your manual download instructions: `emerge -ufpDN |
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> world` |
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> and download all these packages on another box |
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> - transfer the packages to /usr/portage/distfiles, and check you got |
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> them all with `emerge -ufDN world`. You should have no fetch errors. |
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> - then go! `emerge -uvaDN world` |
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> |
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> Notes: |
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> - when creating your own snapshot, |
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> exclude /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/portage/packages, (and others?) |
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> - I would recommend -N as you might see some new features since you |
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> haven't updated in a while |
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> |
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> Hopefully someone will fix any holes I left, otherwise this should |
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> work! |
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Thanks. I'll have to see about giving it a try; not sure how well it'll |
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work on the one system; and I'll have to run it past my other admins |
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for the other system. Any how... |
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Thanks. |
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Ben |
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