[gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-14 Thread Jed R. Mallen
hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages instead of trying to downl

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Tandy
Jed R. Mallen wrote: hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages inst

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-15 Thread Matthias Guede
Ryan Tandy wrote: Jed R. Mallen wrote: hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the n

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/15/06, Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: > Jed R. Mallen wrote: >> hello, >> >> i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. >> i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. >> >> can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to m

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-17 Thread Jed R. Mallen
thank you all. thank you very much. this is what i really need. thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-17 Thread Bira
On 8/17/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thank you all. thank you very much. this is what i really need. thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-17 Thread Justin Findlay
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:48:04PM -0300, Bira wrote: > You can probably do the same thing with the ebuilds (i.e., "emerge > --sync", burn the ebuild directories to a CD, copy to your machine), > but I don't know how "healthy" that is. I would just grab a portage snapshot with all those distfiles.

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:48:04 -0300, Bira wrote: > Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an > "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with > the zipped files Portage will download. Then copy the files over to > your /usr/portage/distfiles direct

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:48:04 -0300, Bira wrote: > > > Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an > > "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a CD with > > the zipped files Portage will download