Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On 1/19/07, Jens Kubieziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
a friend of mine wants to use Gentoo, but has a poor internet
connection.
We are thinking about a convenient way to get packages. We thought about
redefining $FETCHCOMMAND to something like 'FETCHCOMMAND="echo ${URI}
> package.file'. But that (and also other tries) did not work. What is
the best way
to get a file of download-URLs to feed to wget?
Thanks for any recommendations
There are many ways of doying this, and what you've tried will most
certainly not work :-), try something like:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Downloading_distfiles_on_another_machine
There are more tips regarding this at the Wiki, check Google too...
I have a poor internet connection, I've found emerge --fetchonly to be
great. There's also a TIP for portage on dialup on the Gentoo wiki. Do a
search for it on Google. Hope this helps.
Best Regards.
Avaricen
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