On Monday 13 February 2006 19:40, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, > but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly > configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every > time. > > Is there another way to update portage tree? For my first update I > downloaded the snapshot and decompressed it directly to the filesystem > (but that requires a reboot and its kinda "brute force"). Is there a > way to download the snapshot and make emerge or even emerge-webrsync > to use the downloaded file instead of trying to download a new one?
There is no reason to reboot after extracting a portage snapshot directly to the filesystem. It's not brute force, it's just one of the possible ways to update your package tree. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
