RE: Dowloading for later install... where are the files?

Thanks Wes but at work i run windows :-( What i am looking for is an ftp or site which has the source files to download...the same listing that would be as if i ran emerge --pretend apache

looks like it doesn't exits, i'll have to get them one by one :-(




-----Original Message-----
From: wes chow [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] Dowloading for later install... where are
the files?




If you do (for example):

emerge --fetchonly apache

It will download all the files needed to install apache and put them into 
/usr/portage/distfiles.  Later, when you're off the network and you do:

emerge apache

portage will see that the files it needs are in /usr/portage/distfiles and 
install from those.

While at work, you should run emerge --fetchonly for all of the packages
that you'll want to install later.  You don't need to explicitly know
where the packages are stored.  Emerge will figure that out
for you.


Wes



On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm at a stage 3 install and need to download various files and dependancies to continue. I have a fast connection at work and can burn to cd for later use.
> I have read the previous posts regarding installing but i am having trouble figuring out exactly where to download the files from..
> From the http://www.gentoo.org/index-packages.html directory i can select various files but i am at a loss as to where the direct download link is from within those pages??
> As an example, for x11 i need x11-base/opentgl-update-1.4 and x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12, going to the cvs link within the packages listing at http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xfree/ i can't find the link to download.
> All of the ftp sites listed on the home page do not have the same tree structure as the portage list or do not have the files??
> 
> Can anyone point me to where i can get the files or tell me where to download on gentoo's cvs web interface...
> 
> Thanks in advance!!!
> 
> S.
>