Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-24 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Monday 13 February 2006 19:40, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every time. Is there another way to

Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Sheffner
emerge-webrsync should work fine over port 80. Can't you configure the firewall to accept this port. You could also write a script that opens the port calls emerge-webrsync and then locks it back down if you don't want that port open. Another safe way to do it is to run it through a proxy server.

[gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every time. Is there another way to update portage tree? For my first update I downloaded the

Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-13 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/13/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every time. Is there another way to