On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:33, you wrote: > either copy them from the cd/dvd into /usr/portage or change the > distfile dir in /etc/make.conf. > > HOWEVER if emerge decides it wants something that is not on the cd, it > will try and download it and write it onto the cd/dvd, which is going > to crap out.
Another possibility might be to do something like this:- Put the Gentoo source files CD in the drive. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom cd /usr/portage/distfiles ln -s /mnt/cdrom . we now have a writable directory with hundred of links to the readonly files on the CD but any new downloaded files can be written in the normal way. -- C. S.
