Force portage to use Universal cd

murdoc · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 8

I updated the portage tree like the handbook says, but now when I try to emerge anything it first looks to download the sources from the net. My connection is too slow for that so i would prefer portage to use whatever is on the Universal cd (2004.2 x86). Is there a command I can use to install the sources off the cd?

btw, i did search the forums, and tried emerge --help but I can't scroll back to see all the of help because the buffer is too small.

azlan · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:33 am Post subject:

Hey,
What you need to do is look in /mnt/cdrom/packages directory from your cdrom image. These are the binary packages that come with the cd for you to use (if you haven't changed anything in make.conf).

I believe there is as well a /distfiles directory that exists in /mnt/cdrom (before you chroot of course) in that you should find all of the basic .tar.bz2 files that you will need to get you up and running.

you will have to copy the contents of that directory to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles