> > When using -f (--fetchonly) and -p (--pretend) together emerge dumps all > > possible download urls for each package it knows about. I think this is > > documented somewhere. Have you synced the portage tree though? It would > > not be wise to freshen up just one subdirectory on /usr/portage tree. > > You need to get a recent snapshot and update manually. This link has a > > little more on it: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine > > > > It would be something like: > > wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-(most recent date).tar.bz2 > > # ... transfer to your target machine using cd or usb stick ... > > # on target machine put it into /var/tmp > > # then: > > cd /var/tmp > > tar fxj portage-(most recent date).tar.bz2 > > cd portage > > # ... run this: > > /usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq portdir > > # and check that it returns a sane value like /usr/portage and: > > rsync -av --progress --stats --delete --delete-after > > --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/packages' --exclude='/local' . > > `/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq portdir` > > cd .. > > rm -rf portage > > rm -f portage-(most recent date).tar.bz2 > > # ... and now you got a recent portage snapshot to work with ... > > emerge -vuDfp world <-- to see what you get out of date > > > > i havent tested this but the code in the middle i got out of > > emerge-webrsync so i guess it should work. > > > > Eugene. > > Your suggestions worked great except I had to use '/usr/portage' > instead of '/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq portdir' with the rsync > command. > > I ended up with what seemed like a nice links.txt file, but 'wget -i > links.txt' from the networked machine returns all 403 and 404 errors. > I thought this might have something to do with the fact that the > floppy I used to transfer the links.txt file was vfat, so I formatted > it ext2 with the same results. It's always something like this: > > Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org[156.56.247.195]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden > 15:49:30 ERROR 403: Forbidden. > > - Grant
Looking a little closer at the output of 'wget -i links.txt' : --17:14:20-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz%20http:/distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz%20ftp:/ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/software/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz%20ftp:/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/init/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz => `sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz' Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org[216.165.129.135]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 17:14:20 ERROR 404: Not Found. In links.txt each of the paths for any given file are concatenated (correct usage?) with a space character, and wget is trying to fetch the entire string. Does anyone know how to make wget use this file properly? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
