Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: >> It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge >> --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago? > Metadata is included in the tree now, so probably not necessary I would guess. > > I thought it was chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: > It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge > --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago? Metadata is included in the tree now, so probably not necessary I would guess.

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-16 Thread João Matos
A few years ago, I used to run gentoo offline. When I needed to update it, I used to download the portage snapshot, and use the following script, based on Gentoo handbook: #!/bin/bash mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/ rm -rf /usr/portage/ tar xvjf $1 -C /usr mv /usr/distfiles /usr/portage/ emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0200 > Silvio Siefke wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> can i copy the portage tree from my Notebook to the desktop PC? > Yes. There is only one tree, not different one for different arches. > > So it does not matter where you get your tree from, only th

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-16 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0200 Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > can i copy the portage tree from my Notebook to the desktop PC? > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Networkless_Maintenance > > I use this as help, but must i load the portage latest or can copy > the tree from Notebook, beca

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0200 Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > can i copy the portage tree from my Notebook to the desktop PC? Yes. There is only one tree, not different one for different arches. So it does not matter where you get your tree from, only that you do have a copy. Do make

[gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-16 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, can i copy the portage tree from my Notebook to the desktop PC? http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Networkless_Maintenance I use this as help, but must i load the portage latest or can copy the tree from Notebook, because is up to date. Thanks for help. Regards Silvio