Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-06 Thread Grant
> >>> PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well > >>> unless > >>> emerge -fp used to have different behavior. > >> > >> > >> Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I > >> should update the wiki: > >> > >> gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_us

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-06 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Stroller wrote: On Apr 5, 2005, at 7:54 pm, Grant wrote: PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well unless emerge -fp used to have different behavior. Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I should update the wiki: gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_fo

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-05 Thread Stroller
On Apr 5, 2005, at 1:27 am, Grant wrote: Each line in your links.txt is a list of different mirror urls for the same package separated by '%20'. This should take the first link from every line and pass it to wget: cat links.txt | sed -e 's/%20.*//' | xargs -n 1 wget or alternatively: sed -e 's/%20

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-05 Thread Stroller
On Apr 5, 2005, at 7:54 pm, Grant wrote: PS and I dont see how the line in the wiki could have worked well unless emerge -fp used to have different behavior. Thanks a lot Eugene, that second line worked great. Let me know if I should update the wiki: gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users Ye

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-05 Thread Grant
> Ok, I actually went and tested this out this time. The %20 are from wget > escaping spaces, they are not in the file so you could do > cat links.txt | sort | uniq | sed -e 's/ .*//' | xargs -n 1 wget -c > > the sort | uniq pipeline removes identical lines and wget -c option > makes sure that if

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-05 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Grant wrote: Each line in your links.txt is a list of different mirror urls for the same package separated by '%20'. This should take the first link from every line and pass it to wget: cat links.txt | sed -e 's/%20.*//' | xargs -n 1 wget or alternatively: sed -e 's/%20.*//' links1.txt wget -i link

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-04 Thread Grant
> > Each line in your links.txt is a list of different mirror urls for the > > same package separated by '%20'. > > This should take the first link from every line and pass it to wget: > > cat links.txt | sed -e 's/%20.*//' | xargs -n 1 wget > > or alternatively: > > sed -e 's/%20.*//' links1.txt >

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-04 Thread Grant
> Each line in your links.txt is a list of different mirror urls for the > same package separated by '%20'. > This should take the first link from every line and pass it to wget: > cat links.txt | sed -e 's/%20.*//' | xargs -n 1 wget > or alternatively: > sed -e 's/%20.*//' links1.txt > wget -i lin

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-04 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Stroller wrote: On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:25 am, Grant wrote: Looking a little closer at the output of 'wget -i links.txt' : --17:14:20-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz%20http:/ distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/sysvinit -2.86.tar.gz%20ftp:/ftp.

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-03 Thread Stroller
On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:25 am, Grant wrote: Looking a little closer at the output of 'wget -i links.txt' : --17:14:20-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz%20http:/ distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/sysvinit -2.86.tar.gz%20ftp:/ftp.cistron.nl/pub/p

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-03 Thread Grant
> > When using -f (--fetchonly) and -p (--pretend) together emerge dumps all > > possible download urls for each package it knows about. I think this is > > documented somewhere. Have you synced the portage tree though? It would > > not be wise to freshen up just one subdirectory on /usr/portage tr

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-03 Thread Grant
> >>>...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on > >>>another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the > >>>appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would > >>>I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? > >>> > >>> > >>To copy ov

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-03 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Grant wrote: ...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? To copy over only /usr/por

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-03 Thread Grant
> > ...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on > > another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the > > appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would > > I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? > > To copy over only /usr/po

Re: [gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-02 Thread Stroller
On Apr 2, 2005, at 8:22 pm, Grant wrote: ...I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the network-less system. For baselayout, would I want to get and put /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/* ? To co

[gentoo-user] system with no network needs updates

2005-04-02 Thread Grant
I've got a system that needs a few package updates before its wireless connection will start working and ethernet doesn't seem to be cooperating. I think what I need to do is fetch a few packages on another system, burn them to a CD, and copy them from the CD to the appropriate places on the netwo