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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Monday, January 18, 2016 07:52:08 AM Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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>> I have gentoo system A (~x86) on a network that does not allow portage |
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>> access to internet due to some authentication issue. System B (~amd64) |
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>> is on another network with no such restrictions. |
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>> To bypass the restrictions I made a copy of A on a removable media, |
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>> chroot into it from B and 'emerge-webrsync; emerge --fetchonly' from |
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>> there. Then attach the media to A and overwrite /usr/portage with the |
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>> updated one from the removable media. |
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>> This works but updating the chroot from B always re-downloads all the |
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>> packages since the first time I created the chroot, not only those from |
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>> the last update. I suppose portage maintains a database of the installed |
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>> packages that I need to copy back to the removable media after each |
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>> system A update, but where is it? |
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> In the distfiles directory. |
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> If you leave those, it will not download them again. |
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> If those are removed all the time, you end up re-downloading them. |
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Thanks, but it must be something different - or I was not clear |
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describing the problem. |
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On system B, where there is no network restriction, I have always |
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cleared distfiles/ contents after each update without problem. Portage |
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downloads only the packages needed for the most recent update, not also |
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the ones already used for the previous updates. I'm sure it keeps a |
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database of the installed packages somewhere, it does not rely only on |
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distfile/ contents. |
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raffaele |
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