How can I get all the distfiles for a given portage

[jamesm]

Hi,

I have a Gentoo install from a month or so ago and I've deployed it to half a dozen or so machines.

I'd like to take a snapshot of the distfiles needed for those machines and store them away.
Is this possible?

[i92guboj]

Hi,

I have a Gentoo install from a month or so ago and I've deployed it to half a dozen or so machines.

I'd like to take a snapshot of the distfiles needed for those machines and store them away.
Is this possible?

You do mean "all the distfiles for the installed packages", don't you?

In that case, just "emerge -eD world". All the distfiles will be downloaded (except of course, those that need manual fetching because of licensing issues).

[Naib]

Hi,

I have a Gentoo install from a month or so ago and I've deployed it to half a dozen or so machines.

I'd like to take a snapshot of the distfiles needed for those machines and store them away.
Is this possible?

You do mean "all the distfiles for the installed packages", don't you?

In that case, just "emerge -eD world". All the distfiles will be downloaded (except of course, those that need manual fetching because of licensing issues).

you mean emerge -ef world

[i92guboj]

Yes. Thanks for the correction, it was a typo.

[jamesm]

You do mean "all the distfiles for the installed packages", don't you?

No, all the distfiles for the ebuilds in that machine's idea of portage. So if we decide six months from now to install foobarX we'll already have the distfiles for the packages and its dependencies.

[Naib]

You do mean "all the distfiles for the installed packages", don't you?

No, all the distfiles for the ebuilds in that machine's idea of portage. So if we decide six months from now to install foobarX we'll already have the distfiles for the packages and its dependencies.

you mean freeze the tree at a certain data AND d/l every src possible in the tree even tho you may/may not use any/all of them?

[i92guboj]

You do mean "all the distfiles for the installed packages", don't you?

No, all the distfiles for the ebuilds in that machine's idea of portage. So if we decide six months from now to install foobarX we'll already have the distfiles for the packages and its dependencies.

You can certainly do this... But it's an insane amount of distfiles probably.

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Correction.

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cd /usr/portage/; find -name '*.ebuild' | while read ebuild; do ebuild=${ebuild/.ebuild/}; echo emerge --nodeps --fetchonly =${ebuild/.\//}; done

/EDIT

Not tested. But it should work, sit down and wait.

[jamesm]

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cd /usr/portage/; find -name '*.ebuild' | while read ebuild; do ebuild=${ebuild/.ebuild/}; echo emerge --nodeps --fetchonly =${ebuild/.\//}; done

/EDIT

Not tested. But it should work, sit down and wait.

Great! its a good start at least.

Thanks i92guboj!

[jamesm]

you mean freeze the tree at a certain data AND d/l every src possible in the tree even tho you may/may not use any/all of them?

Yep; i92guboj looks like he's given me enough to start the process - but thanks for your help too!

[i92guboj]

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Correction.

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cd /usr/portage/; find -name '*.ebuild' | while read ebuild; do ebuild=${ebuild/.ebuild/}; echo emerge --nodeps --fetchonly =${ebuild/.\//}; done

/EDIT

Not tested. But it should work, sit down and wait.

Great! its a good start at least.

Thanks i92guboj!

Well, if it looks like what you want, then just remove the "echo" and the commands will be run, downloading all the stuff.

[i92guboj]

Gosh, I should probably check the things before posting.

This works and it's simpler.

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cd /usr/portage/; find -type d | while read ebuild; do emerge --nodeps --fetchonly ${ebuild/.\//}; done