Thanks for all the ideas. I like the Tips page, it gives me a way to (1) get a list of ALL the files needed to upgrade (including patches), into a file and a python script that downloads all those files into a temp directory, then make a CD and move it to the other machine at home and "emerge -uDv world".
There are probably more efficient ways. This is relatively elegant, and beats the hell out of three or four weeks of downloading and dodging family use of the phone. Cheers, Alan Davis On 12/6/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:59:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > > > > > >>>What's wrong with /usr/portage/distfiles? > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > >>Well, I'm not sure I get what you are asking. I don't think putting the > >>latest CD that was converted to mp3 should be stored in the distfiles > >>directory though. They do have this thing called a Documents folder for > >>that. LOL > >> > >> > > > >He isn't downloading mp3s, he is downloading source tarballs to emerge on > >another machine. since some of those tarballs are probably already > >in /usr/portage/distfiles, it seems a reasonable place to put them all, > >then just put the ones he needs onto a CD. > > > > > > > > > That was confusing me. I don't use wget. That said, source tarballs go > in the distfiles directory, not the portage directory. Basically, he > put something, doesn't really matter what, in the portage directory. > When he did his emerge sync, it got deleted because it was not a > directory on the rsync server. If he had put it in the distfiles > directory, he would have been OK. The sync up would not have deleted it > then. That is also why I made the comment about putting mp3s on the > rsync server. The next time you or I done a sync, we would get them > too. LOL > > Anyway, source tarballs in distfiles, snapshot in portage. Put the rest > somewhere else. o_O > > Dale > :-) > > -- > To err is human, I'm most certainly human. > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
