Grant wrote:
When using -f (--fetchonly) and -p (--pretend) together emerge dumps all possible download urls for each package it knows about. I think this is documented somewhere. Have you synced the portage tree though? It would not be wise to freshen up just one subdirectory on /usr/portage tree. You need to get a recent snapshot and update manually. This link has a little more on it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine...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.
This doesn't seem to be working. I followed the instructions to emerge -fp about 10 different packages, but I get this output:
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/source/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019.tar.bz2
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/wpa_supplicant-0.2.7.tar.gz http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/wpa_supplicant-0.2.7.tar.gz http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-0.2.7.tar.gz
Looking that over, only two different packages are mentioned and the madwifi-driver package is really out of date.
- Grant
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It would be something like:
wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-(most recent date).tar.bz2
# ... transfer to your target machine using cd or usb stick ...
# on target machine put it into /var/tmp
# then:
cd /var/tmp
tar fxj portage-(most recent date).tar.bz2
cd portage
# ... run this:
/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq portdir
# and check that it returns a sane value like /usr/portage and:
rsync -av --progress --stats --delete --delete-after --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/packages' --exclude='/local' . `/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq portdir`
cd ..
rm -rf portage
rm -f portage-(most recent date).tar.bz2
# ... and now you got a recent portage snapshot to work with ...
emerge -vuDfp world <-- to see what you get out of date
i havent tested this but the code in the middle i got out of emerge-webrsync so i guess it should work.
Eugene.
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