On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:17, Rob Harris wrote: > ... at home, built from stage1. > > Is there an .iso/script/etc somewhere that I can use to figure out what > packages/updates/etc I will need to build each stage, download them at > work, and, say burn 'em to a cd, bring em home, and move them somewhere > where the stage-n installers would find/use them? > > Also, as goofy as this sounds, and as awesome as gentoo is, it really > needs an automated installation tool. I say this, 'cause if the answer to > my first question is "sorry, no." then it's going to take an entire > weekend to download, compile and install everything and I can't spend all > my time babysitting it.
I got dialup.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2022
Just figure out what you want to install and paste what you want into one long emerge command after building the basic system and updating it.
If something breaks, it will stop and wait on you to fix, if it doesn't, it continues building and installing.
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Okay, I'm thinking from the sounds of it, you have access to gentoo already. What I would do is run:
emerge -ep list-of-stuff-you-will-want
That will print out a list of all packages you will need. You could then do the same with '-ep' instead of '-eu' to fetch those packages. You can then burn the /usr/portage/ folder. This way you will also skip the rsync command (as it might at this point contain different versions of packages than you downloaded previously).
Now, the only problem is that the bootstrap.sh script is not always up to date with portage. You will have to look inside it to see if it lists the version numbers for packages it will install.
I have not tested replacing all of /usr/portage, so you might have some difficulties with that, I'm not sure. Maybe somebody could answer that.
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