Update portage tree offline?

Bysan · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

Newbie question:

I have just installed Gentoo and are offline. I want to install linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 which is not available from the livecd. I found it however on a mirror and dowloaded it at my office and put it in the distfiles dir. But, emerge does not now about it.

How do I update the portage tree when I am offline? I want to do emerge rsync wihout a network connection? I found a snapshot on a mirror but does not now how to install it.

/Bysan

avelldiroll · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:

Search the wiki ...

Gentoo for dialup users

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BlackEdder · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:07 am Post subject:

Which doesn't answer the question how to update your portage tree. (It's the todo section). The only solution I can think of is having a gentoo machine on the net and copying the tree from that one

avelldiroll · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:18 am Post subject:

From the gentoo installation handbook :

tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-[datehere].tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

you can get the last portage snapshot on the gentoo ftp server ...

[edit] Sorry for my initial post, I started replying without reading the full post ... silly me [/edit]
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Bysan · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

Great, I'll try that at home tonight, but the problem is that I do not have a modem either (yet). I have however downloaded the package and put in the distfile dir already.

The wiki was full of intresting stuff, haven't seen it before. Should be a link from gentoo.org.

/Bysan

avelldiroll · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject:

I just found this topic
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=79884

... just some scripts ideas ...

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