Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Show list of required files without downloading anything?

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:08:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # export DISTDIR=$(emerge --info | sed -n 's/^DISTDIR=\(.*\)$/\1/p') DISTDIR=$(portageq distdir) looks less like line noise and it harder to mis-type :) -- Neil Bothwick I do not like this dumb machine I really ought to sell it.

[gentoo-user] Portage: Show list of required files without downloading anything?

2006-10-08 Thread Statux
My mother has a computer which still accesses the internet via a dialup connection. When I do upgrades on her system, I typically grab a portage snapshot from my system, drive up to her house 12 miles away, install it, check to see which packages need upgrading, then somehow figure out (never

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Show list of required files without downloading anything?

2006-10-08 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:35:49 -0400 Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Is there a way that I can get Portage to run through the packages/ebuilds and, instead of downloading anything from the net, just have it show me which files were not in /usr/portage/distfiles which will be needed?

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Show list of required files without downloading anything?

2006-10-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 08 October 2006 21:35, Statux wrote: [SNIP] Question: Is there a way that I can get Portage to run through the packages/ebuilds and, instead of downloading anything from the net, just have it show me which files were not in /usr/portage/distfiles which will be needed? So if I had 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Show list of required files without downloading anything?

2006-10-08 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/10/8, Jan-Hendrik Zab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:35:49 -0400 Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Is there a way that I can get Portage to run through the packages/ebuilds and, instead of downloading anything from the net, just have it show me which files were not in