On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 11:38, David Obwaller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to upgrade to the latest gnome version (2.4.1). I have a cd
> containing the whole sources, but gzip compressed (not bzip2). I did
> 'lndir /mnt/cdrom/gnome-2.4.1 /usr/portage/distfiles' and tried emerge
> -pf gnome. portage now wants to download the whole set of files as .bz,
> it doesn't use the .gz files.
> It wouldn't be a problem for me to download the .bz compressed sources
> as I have a quite fast internet connection, but I'm curious to know if I
> could use the .gz ones too and if so how.
> So, is this possible somehow? (manually untar'ing the compressed sources
> or something??)
You could recompress them as bzip2
for f in /usr/portage/distfiles/*.gz; do
gzip -d $f && bzip2 ${f%.gz} || echo "failed $f"
done
>
> David
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