Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:05:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > If you don't mind a two step approach, you could > > Download the latest portage snapshot on B > Unpack it on A > Run emerge -ufp @world on A and capture the output > Use that on B to download the files > Copy them back to A and emerge -u @world > > That avoids the use of a chroot altogether but involves two round trips > across the sneakernet. You could possible save some of that by > transferring the portage snapshot and download list as email attachments, > assuming A has email. >
Yes, I used that procedure in the past but it requires more human effort so I'd prefer the chroot approach; also I found that sometimes the list of files downloaded by system B was not complete and I had to further iterate the procedure. At the time I assumed it was due to the two systems being based on different architectures (~amd64 and ~x86), but did not really spend much time investigating. raffaele
