Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Raffaele Belardi wrote: >> I have gentoo system A (~x86) on a network that does not allow portage >> access to internet due to some authentication issue. System B (~amd64) >> is on another network with no such restrictions. >> >> To bypass the restrictions I made a copy of A on a removable media, >> chroot into it from B and 'emerge-webrsync; emerge --fetchonly' from >> there. Then attach the media to A and overwrite /usr/portage with the >> updated one from the removable media. >> >> This works but updating the chroot from B always re-downloads all the >> packages since the first time I created the chroot, not only those from >> the last update. I suppose portage maintains a database of the installed >> packages that I need to copy back to the removable media after each >> system A update, but where is it? > > I suppose the database I'm looking for is /var/db/pkg, right? >
Just tested, it works: 1. cp -a /var/db/pkg from system A to removable media 2. chroot ; emerge-webrsync ; emerge --fetchonly -uDvN world 3. cp -a /usr/portage from removable media to system A 4. next week, goto 1 raffaele
