[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Charles Marcus]

Hey Geoffrey,

Hmmm, I remember seeing a bit about this (installing from behind a firewall)
on the list, let me go see what I can find... ok, here's a few, see if this
helps...

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Did you set the HTTP_PROXY environment variable ?

In my case I had to do:

export HTTP_PROXY=gatekeeper.???.com:8080
export FTP_PROXY=gatekeeper.???.com:8080

from that moment I could emerge applications that needed an internet
connection. However "emerge rsync" doesn't work,
I assume it needs a direct connection. When you have figured it out already
please let me know how to "rsync".
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My setup is similar.  Here is how I work it.

First I:
  export http_proxy=http://ip:88
  export ftp_proxy=http://ip:88

Then I grab the latest portage tree "snapshot"
  wget http://www.gentoo.org/snapshots/portage-20020402.tar.bz2

Then in /usr:
  tar -xjvf /path/to/snapshot/portage-20020402.tar.bz2

Then emerge at will.
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I'll keep looking for more - let me know if you get it working...

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:05 AM
> To: Ale (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] Gentoo Linux install question
>
>
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Another page with more info:
> >
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8736
>
> Okay, I'm on my way, but I've run into a stumbling block.  I
> booted with
> Tom's r/b and followed these docs.  I get to the point it's going to
> rsync stuff to continue.  Problem is, I can't get this rsync
> to work.  I
> figured it was my firewall, and attempted to go around it, no luck.
>
> It talks about using an rsync proxy, but I've not found
> useful docs on this.
>
> Is there any other way to do this, other then rsync?  I've got
> connectivity through the machine, it's just that rsync fails with
> resolution errors.
>
> I'm back on it, but would appreciate any clues.
>
>
>
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey


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