On Sunday 08 October 2006 21:35, Statux wrote: [SNIP] > Question: Is there a way that I can get Portage to run through the > packages/ebuilds and, instead of downloading anything from the net, just > have it show me which files were not in /usr/portage/distfiles which > will be needed? > > So if I had 8 packages which needed upgrading, which would result in (an > estimated) 6,382K of downloads, is there some way for me to have it go > through each one of those all at once, similar to --fetchonly, and have > it spit out a list of everything which it did not find on the local > system? > > It seems to be simple enough and a useful feature on some level but I > haven't found the answer.
Something like:
# export DISTDIR=$(emerge --info | sed -n 's/^DISTDIR="\(.*\)"$/\1/p')
# emerge --fetchonly --pretend --quiet -u world | \
grep -v "^$" | \
while read SRC_URI; do \
filename=`basename "${SRC_URI}"`; \
[ ! -f "${DISTDIR}/${filename}" ] && \
echo "${SRC_URI}"; \
done
> Thoughts?
You might also consider creating a binhost on your network and bringing binary
packages instead of sources to her computer...
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Bo Andresen
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