Answer to 1: Yes, if you download a portage-<timestamp>.tar.bz2 file and uncompress it on /usr/portage, it has the same effect as emerge --sync. Actually, to be more precise, the same effect as emerge-webrsync. Unforunately, this consumes more bandwidth, since it downloads ebuilds you don't need to update as well. But, in a proxy enviroment that doesn't allow rsync, it is the only choice you have.
Answer to 2: Portage doesn't really care how you download the source packages, as long as they have the same md5sum. So, if you download them separetely and move them to /usr/portage/distfiles, you should be fine. Answer to 3: See 1 and 2. :) 2005/9/30, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I just managed to install (network less Universal CD install) Gentoo > on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM (yeah, it was hard, but I got the > fastest system this poor hardware ever had), its working fine with > minimal on everything, but as I have limited network access (proxy), I > can't update, neither the usual emerge --sync nor emerge-webrsync > works, the RSYNC is blocked for sure, and I suppose webrsync is trying > to download something (all downloads are filtered, except for some > extensions, but tar.bz2 and tar.gz are filtered). > > I scheduled the download of the last portage tree (snapshot) and MySQL > and Apache latest versions and its dependencies, but I'm pretty sure I > won't be able to install them, because when calculating dependencies, > emerge fails (too old for the latest versions, and they're masked). > > So, I ask: > > 1) If I get the latest snapshot, will it be like an "emerge --sync"? > 2) If I download all packages and dependencies, will I be able to > install the masked version after pretending the "sync" with the > snapshot? > 3) Has anyone tried this? > > If I manage to install it, I'll get like 4 new servers using > replication with hardware that would be trash nowadays (that's good > for business). > > Thanks for all answers, > > -- > Daniel da Veiga > Computer Operator - RS - Brazil > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- > PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
