Doing emerge sync without gentoo

aidinskas · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 28

Hi there,

Is there any way to download all files that should be downloaded by emerge sync command?

This is quite stupid question

Thanks

Jimbow · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:15 am Post subject:

A quick look in /usr/bin/emerge yields:

ventricle · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 305 Location: UK/Australia

From my reading (because I'm new), I take it emerge sync will get the latest versions of the packages from /distfiles on a mirror (for example).
If this is true, I have a similar question to the original, is there any way to get all the files, but in windows, so I can put them on a CD for a later install?
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Jesu · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject:

No, sorry, emerge sync gets the latest versions of the ebuild files - the instructions for how to build packages. It only downloads the packages from /distfiles when you emerge package, or emerge -f package. However, if you just ftp onto a mirror, you can pick up useful files from /distfiles and put them anywhere (including a windows drive) for later use. (Copy them to /usr/portage/distfiles to use them). It's hard to know which versions to get without using the emerge tool, but if you pick up the latest versions of the big packages (xfree, kde, gcc) then you're well on your way. If you do have a gentoo system, then emerge -fp package will tell you which files you need to get.

Good luck,

Jesu

genfoo · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 192

rsync -azv rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage /path/to/files