emerge question

Deech · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject: emerge question

hi,

when using emerge, i usually copy the source files from cd to /usr/distfiles before i give the emerge command. Works great...but....i forgot to copy a file. So portage tried to download it for me, but failed since i don't have a connection.
So I copied the missing source file from cd to /usr/distfiles, and tried to emerge again. But whenever i try to emerge , portage keeps trying to download it (resume download)....Where does portage keep these settings of previous emerge attempts. Can i change these settings, so portage won't try to download?

Thanx for your tips....

greetz,
deech

fghellar · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 6:53 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't it be /usr/portage/distfiles? Or you changed your config to use /usr/distfiles instead?
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Deech · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 9:50 pm Post subject: nope, changed it

hi fghellar,

nope, dir is changed to /usr/distfiles......checked it in the settingsfile. And it worked fine before.....

deech

lx · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 10:07 pm Post subject:

It just continues the download of a file in ${DISTDIR} check the RESUMECOMMAND in /etc/make.globals. Are you sure it isn't downloading another / different source file?. Just checked it and when, I moved file from distdir then emerged the package -> CTRL+C -> moved the original source back and it just uses the original source.

Make sure its the same source file.

Maybe the copied file is corrupted and emerge wants to download the correct one.

Can also try to remove the digest file from the /usr/portage/.../..../files dir and rebuilding it with ebuild /usr/portage/..../..../????.ebuild digest. Maybe the used source is somewhat different.

Hope this get you any further, lX
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rphillips · Retired Dev Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

Packages are downloaded to /usr/portage/distfiles unless you have changed this...

Copy the complete tarball into that directory and it should be installed without downloading it.

joshua

i've had that too, the following worked for me (assuming the correct archives have already been downloaded to /usr/portage/distfiles):

rac

proxy · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:13 am Post subject:

why not just mount the cd into the distfiles directory instead? no ability to forget files then. only time would be when it needs to download a file....but that's not a concern anyway.

proxy