Nick Rout wrote: > OTOH your approach has problems in that not all files reside on gentoo > mirrors, some reside on sourceforge or other more obscure places.
Yup. I know. I did it that way because I used to have dialup (I'm on cablemodem now) and the only places I knew with broadband were using Windows, so I just made a: G: wget -i list.txt G: was my 1GB pendrive :-P > run: > > for package in `cat packlist` ; do DISTDIR="/where/ever/i/want" > GENTOO_MIRRORS="local /usr/portage/distfiles" USE="-* `cat B.uselist` > emerge --nodeps -f =$package; done Good approach. I haven't tested but it should work. > > Certainly, like most of linux, there is more than one way to do it. :-) That's why I like Linux ;-) Best regards, Norberto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
