On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:34, Rusinsky Stanislas Herman W. A. wrote: > > Sure, you just do emerge sync, copy the entire portage tree on to > > usb stick (I suggest in a tarball, because those memory sticks > > usually have FAT filesystem) and then you overwrite your offline > > portage tree. I can see no caveat here. > > you also may format your your usb-stick to a less WindBlows > compatible format like ext2 :)
I don't recommend, because UNI's normally have the fstab entry to the usb mass storage set to use users option and that doesn't work with extX. So normal ext2 fs will be root:root permission and thus wont let anybody put root to write into it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
