A few years ago, I used to run gentoo offline. When I needed to update it, I used to download the portage snapshot, and use the following script, based on Gentoo handbook:
#!/bin/bash mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/ rm -rf /usr/portage/ tar xvjf $1 -C /usr mv /usr/distfiles /usr/portage/ emerge --metadata emerge --regen I also have another script to built a list of packages for download. You can take this list to a connected place, download the files and put it into /usr/portage/distfiles/. If useful, I can give it to you (but I don't know if it still works). 2012/9/16 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0200 > > Silvio Siefke <siefke_lis...@web.de> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> can i copy the portage tree from my Notebook to the desktop PC? > > Yes. There is only one tree, not different one for different arches. > > > > So it does not matter where you get your tree from, only that you do > > have a copy. > > > > Do make sure that owners and permissions are set to something that will > > work on the destination after the copy. > > > > > > It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge > --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago? I think that would > take care of Bryan's concerns too. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or > how you interpreted my words! > > > -- João de Matos Linux User #461527 Graduando em Engenharia de Computação 2005.1 UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
