Re: offline downloading...

The only catch here is that everything MUST be at ibiblio (assuming that is
your primary mirror).  Anything that is not yet there will not attempt to be
downloaded from the seconary URL.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ewan Mac Mahon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] offline downloading...


> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:25:20AM +0530, Vardhan Varma wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> <snip>
> >   My Q is : how to get list of source tgz to download for basic
> >   use-profile and kde-profile. my friend is not running gentoo.
>
> This is an unpleasant kudge, but it does do the job; if you look near th
> bottom of /etc/make.conf you'll find some commented examples of how to
> change the command used to fetch sources. Add (not commented) one like
> this:
> FETCHCOMMAND='echo ${URI} >> /root/fetchurls'
>
> Then run emerge --fetchonly <packages>. As emerge tries to download the
> packages it will run the echo and append the URIs to the named file, which
> you can then feed into wget on your friend's box. One important note is
> that you will get (at least) two URIs for each tarball, one for the gentoo
> mirror copy, and one for the original location; so you need to run wget
with
> the --no-clobber option otherwise it will download everything twice.
>
> Ewan
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