-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 November 2003 07:25, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 15:48, Andreas Schmitzer wrote: > > hello, > > > > i installed my gentoo system from the two Live-CD´s . while installing, > > all packages where copied to my hard disc. > > now i try to install a package with " emerge -k package" and > > nevertheless emerge tries to connect to web sites. > > how can i stop this and force emerge to look only on my hard disc. as far > > as i know the directories are set correctly. > > Once you've done "emerge sync" the game's pretty much over. The problem is > that half the packages you copied are now more than likely outdated and > portage always tries to install the latest available that matches your > stability requirements. You should be able to jump a through hoops to get > it to use your packages though. Look at the following example.
emerge package1 package2 package3 ... -pk You'll either get [ebuild ..... or [binary ..... I think you can point emerge directly at the binary, like with ebuilds bypassing most version checks emerge /usr/portage/packages/All/abiword...tbz2 - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u1GmInuLMrk7bIwRAgUrAJ9jC9QLu1YzWzDrdqkbAKX0j9FhuACfazfL IUBbc895R2H624PovzoYzxo= =Nl+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
