Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:39:50 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >> 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 > > Interesting, that's worthy of an entry in the wiki for anyone else > looking to maintain a Gentoo system without Internet access. I would > suggest that you update portage within the chroot. What you are doing is > lying to portage about what is actually installed, that shouldn't be a > problem most of the time given what you are using it for, but different > versions of portage on the two systems may cause problems at some time in > the future.
Good suggestion about portage update. I'll check how to create a wiki entry. raffaele
