Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Ryan Viljoen <ravilj@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:33:57
Message-Id: deb20110510271528w572b4291p8d1fe811ccabe807@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection by Tamas Sarga
1 Yeah I would suggest doing a emerge <package> and then CTRL-C'ing it and
2 copying the url that it was attemping to download it from. That way you make
3 sure you get the right sources for your current portage tree.
4
5 On 10/27/05, Tamas Sarga <tamas@×××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
6 >
7 >
8 > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Michael Crute wrote:
9 >
10 > >
11 > > On 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager <gentoovoyager@×××××.com> wrote:
12 > > >
13 > > > Dear all,
14 > > > My home gentoo box dos't have a internet connection, but i need to
15 > > > install Sendmail on my PC( for testing perposer), any one know how to
16 > do it
17 > > > without internet cennection..
18 > > >
19 > >
20 > > You need to find a gentoo box on an internet connection and use emerge
21 > to
22 > > fetch the sources then dump them in your distfiles directory and away
23 > you
24 > > go.
25 > > -Mike
26 > >
27 >
28 > Hi,
29 > You don't need *Gentoo* machine on the net. You can do an
30 > emerge --fetch --pretend and it will show what you should download.
31 > After it you can download needed files with a non-gentoo machine too.
32 >
33 > HTH.
34 > Cheers,
35 > Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás
36 > --
37 > Make the world confused! Zavard össze a világot!
38 > Smile on monday morning! Mosolyogj hétfő reggel!
39 >
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43 >
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45
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47 "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at
48 you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus
49 Torvalds, 1995

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>