On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm > , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I > need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... > > Even though it has only few packages installed it consumes a lot of disk > space... that another problem im having. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service > Center | Standard Chartered Bank > (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf <package-name(s)>" to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and remove the multiple urls. Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the files. Copy the files you just downloaded to /usr/portage/dist and emerge the package normally. Here is a link to a project I used before: http://www.tlug.org.za/wiki/index.php/Ogentools. I don't know if it's still active? The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it up every now and then. Check the /var folder. When aborting ebuilds with ctrl-c some files are left behind in /var/tmp/portage/. Lastly I'd like to say, I feel for you, running gentoo offline can sometimes be a painful process. Regards Dirk
