On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:31 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 1 Aug 2007, at 02:53, Richard Marz wrote: > > > I have a networkless box that I've gentoo installed on. I grabbed the > > latest portage snapshot from one of the mirrors. I ran emerge -DNeF > > world and system on my networked machine to try and fetch every > > possible > > file needed to install my world and system programs. Then I tarred the > > distfiles directory which was about 2.5GB and dumped it > > into /usr/portage/ on my networkless box. When installing certain > > programs on my networkless pc; It complains about not being able to > > fetch some package dependencies. Is there an emerge option/switch > > that I > > can use to make sure I fetch every possible depedency/package for > > every > > package in my world and system set. > > Networkless box: > $ emerge -fpv world > foo.txt > > Sneaker foo.txt to networked box and: > $ for foo in foo.txt ; do wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/distfiles/ > $foo ; done > > Should approximately do the trick. > > Stroller.
Thanks for the help, Stroller. But that command did not work so well. wget translated $foo to foo.txt instead of reading line line in foo.txt. I managed to get wget to fetch the files in foo.txt by running: cat foo.txt |xargs -- wget -c -nc -P /usr/portage/distfiles/ - also it would be a good idea to run # emerge -fpveDN world && emerge -fpvDN <packagename1> <packagename2> ...and so on because emerge -fpve{DN} world didn't quite world as thorough as I would have liked it to. Thank you all. Marz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list