On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:34:05 +0100 "virtual persia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> s there a way to copy the current online portage-tree onto a usb-stick or > something like that and thus replace ones own portage-tree with these files? > I don't have an internet connection at home but I have a 128mb usb-stick and > very fast internetconnections at the university where I can put files on the > stick due to the availability of usb-interfaces. This would be the only way > for me to update gentoo's portage tree. Is this possible? Sure, you just do emerge sync, copy the entire portage tree on to usb stick (I suggest in a tarball, because those memory sticks usually have FAT filesystem) and then you overwrite your offline portage tree. I can see no caveat here. -- /~\ The ASCII Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <andrej at kacian dot sk> \ / Ribbon Campaign GnuPG public key ID: 7CD93FE2 (pgp.mit.edu) X Against HTML Key fingerprint: / \ Email! E87D 9DEF 2A23 6FFB 7AD9 542F 4253 3A46 7CD9 3FE2
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