[Sussex] gentoo is cool.

[Tony Austin]

Angelo

>      When I do an   emerge -k packagename    gentoo attempts to grab
>      everything from internet connections; ok fair enough, but I
>      thought that -k was supposed to grab binaries?.  I tried -K
>      and that seems to point to the fact that it cannot find those
>      binaries.. if so why?
>
>      I did do the following ok after mounting the cd, im sure of it:
>
>        cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/

According to a little test that I have just done maybe your .tbz files
should be in

/usr/portage/packages/All

That worked for the test that I did.


Regards.

Tony Austin
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