On Apr 2, 2005, at 8:22 pm, Grant wrote:
...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ?
To copy over only /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/ is inelegant - it brings in only the ebuilds for baselayout, which might depend on other packages in the tree.
The best thing to do is grab a whole Portage snapshot on a network connected machine - you'll find these at [UK mirror] <http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/snapshots/>.
When you've copied this across to the networkless machine & unpacked it the right place you can then find out what packages to download by typing `emerge -pf world`. This should give you a whole list of URLs which you can wget from the networked machine.
The Gentoo Wiki has an article about this - <http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users>.
If you see any room for tidying, please update it - I think the "Updating the portage tree" section should come a the beginning, not the end??
Stroller.
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