networkless install; emerging silo

aminal

Hey guys,

I'm on a networkless install, and trying to emerge silo.

I use emerge --usepkg silo , and it tries to connect to a couple mirrors, then looks in the distfiles folder for silo-1.3.2. Unfortunately, the version in the folder is 1.3.1 - so it fails out.

Is there a way to change the package it looks for, or is there a workaround or something? What can I do?

Thanks a lot.

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

yes you can specify which package you want to install, but ensure it is stable for your architecture before emerging it if you want to avoid problems ;p

example: if i want to emerge apache ver 1.3.29-r1

emerge "=apache-1.3.29-r1"

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

so you would use this to see if it does what you want, remove --pretend for the real emerge !

emerge "=silo-1.3.1" --usepkg --pretend

aminal · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

awesome - worked great, thanks a lot!

aminal · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject:

Ok - that was the only one it worked for.

The same problem came back when trying to install a logger. - looking for mirrors, even though I'm not online, then checking in distfiles for a version newer than the one that came with the disk.

I've tried to emerge both syslog-ng and sysklogd with this and they've both failed with
'there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "=syslog-ng-1.6.0rc3"'

and

'there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "=sysklogd-1.4.1"'

I don't know what the problem is, I'm looking at them in the distfiles folder. I've tried: (using syslog-ng as an example)

emerge "=syslog-ng-1.6.0rc3" --usepkg --pretend

emerge "=syslog-ng-1.6.0" --usepkg --pretend

emerge "=syslog-ng" --usepkg --pretend

emerge "=syslog-ng-1.6.0rc3.tar.gz" --usepkg --pretend

(syslog-ng-1.6.0rc3.tar.gz is the actual package in distfiles folder)

I'm really starting to thing installing on a network with access to the outside internet just isn't realistically possible.

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

emerge "=syslog-ng-1.6.0_rc3-r1" --usepkg --pretend

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

if you want to know which version of the package would be installed just type in emerge packagename --pretend

so ... emerge syslog-ng --pretend will tell you which one it would install as per the portage tree

then you use "=packagename-ver" string to emerge it ;o)

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

aminal · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

Well, I managed to get past the issue, I forget how I did it though, to be honest I've had so many issues. Thanks for your help though.

fennec · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 Location: Montreal

ok cool man ! hope everything helped though!