> Ok, I actually went and tested this out this time. The %20 are from wget
> escaping spaces, they are not in the file so you could do
> cat links.txt | sort | uniq | sed -e 's/ .*//' | xargs -n 1 wget -c
>
> the sort | uniq pipeline removes identical lines and wget -c option
> makes sure that if there is a doubleup, the files dont get overwritten.
> Its a hack but it should work. It relies on the first mirror for each
> package being valid. If its not, it will not get that package since sed
> prunes all but the first link. So if one of the packages doesnt
> download, you'll have to get one of the links for it manually and
> download it.
> Alternatively you could try:
>
> cat links.txt | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do
> wget -c $i && break; done'
>
> this command will actually iterate over the alternative links for each
> file until it one of them works. It's ot perfect but works reasonably
> well for me. Use this one and if it breaks for you, use the first, less
> complicated line.
>
> Eugene.
>
> PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well unless
> emerge -fp used to have different behavior.
Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I
should update the wiki:
gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users
- Grant
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