frankly maxim, your question would have been a lot more understandable if you had explained the problem something like this:
"I am trying to get dial up networking going, and portage wants me to install the following packages, but I need to download these on another system/os before i can connect to the internet on this box. how can i find and download the exact files I need?" The answer is then simple, "emerge -pf package will tell you what files portage wants and a list of urls where they should be found. simply download those files and get them into /usr/portage/distfiles and you should be fine. portage will find them there and not attempt to download them" Like Holly i was confused about why you would want to download the packages outside portage, and that led to a lot of futzing around. On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:18:44 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler wrote: > > > > Those are dependencies to whatever it is you're > > trying to install. Portage > > will handle these for you. No need for any manual > > intervention. > > Catch 22. portage requires access to web. dial-up > requires wvstreams and wvidial. No dial-up, no > portage,n'est ce pas? > > -mw > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
