I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near identical system that might get Gentoo 2007 installed. Both are on two separate networks and have no communication between them.
The first system does have some Internet access through a firewall, but it doesn't really work, at least for this purpose; so it's just as good as not having any access at all for this purpose. The second system may or may not have Internet access, so for now let's just assume it doesn't. It's really this second system that I want to figure the problem out for. In either case, I can't update portage using the normal method of 'emerge --sync'. So, I'm trying to figure out a solution that would enable me to update the systems. Under Slackware, I'd just point pkgtool to the CD media and install from that, just like during installation. Is there a similar approach for Gentoo? How do I overcome the source mirror issue too so that the systems don't try to download stuff from the web? I could probably host an rsync server on the local systems to host portage, but how would I keep it up to date? Would I simply be able to extract a tarball into the directory rsync is serving up? I can get large tarballs or ISOs from other systems to these systems; but they won't be able to download them themselves. I noticed the Manual Download info in the FAQ: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#manualdownload However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the long term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a lot of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution similar to the following: # tar xvjf /portage-sources-<data>.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage-sources # tar xvjf /portage-<date>.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage # emerge --sync --portage-source /my-portage # emerge world -vuD --sources /my-portage-sources If there isn't a solution, I might look into how to make a solution (not sure). TIA, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
