[gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-03-20 Thread Eugene Van Dam
How does emerge -up world decide which packages it wants to install? What if there is a package (ex. [ebuildU ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p3-r3 ) that i do not want to install? How can I remove or change what emerge -u world would do? Thanks for the time Eugene -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Internet-less box?

2003-03-19 Thread Eugene Van Dam
Hi I recently got hold of a live-cd containg gentoo stage1,2 and 3 tarballs and a few packages. I read through the /usr/share/doc/install.txt and also read the portage manual and guide. I find the whole portages/emerge idea very interesting and would like to give it a try, except I have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Internet-less box?

2003-03-19 Thread Eugene Van Dam
with internet access and place the downloaded files from /usr/portage/distfiles into the same directory on the machine without internet access. I assume there is also ftp access to the tarballs so you could use that instead of emerge -f Eugene Van Dam wrote: Hi I recently got hold