On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm >> , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I >> need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... >> >> Even though it has only few packages installed it consumes a lot of disk >> space... that another problem im having. >> > > I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf > <package-name(s)>" to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the > output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and > remove the multiple urls. > > Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as > simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When > you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the > files. Why don't you just run wget -i filelist? In fact, you do not even need to edit the filelist to remove duplicates; you can just use wget's -nc option.
So you can use wget -nc -i filelist or, if you want to do it in the background wget -nc -i filelist -b --progress=dot:mega > The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it > up every now and then. I suggest the tool eclean (part of gentoolkit).
