need to install packages with no net access - manually update pacman?

graysky · 2010-12-03 09:38:00

I am building an arch box without net access (black out for a few days). I have all the needed packages in another system's /var/cache/pacman/pkg which I will place on a USB stick for the new system which I'll build from the latest Arch core-x86_64 ISO. My question is how can I manually update pacman's files (databases or whatever)? Is it as simple as browsing out to a repo and downloading a tar.gz for core, extra, and community and manually extracting these files to the new system? Basically, what are the steps that a pacman -Syy does and can I manually replicate them for this purpose?

Details to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Allan · 2010-12-03 09:46:29

There have been multiple threads on this in the last few days....

Essentially, extract the repo files into /var/lib/pacman/sync/

.:B:. · 2010-12-03 10:01:03

Since we're drowning in this kind of threads, I'm locking this.

See also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=861254

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#1 2010-12-03 09:38:00

need to install packages with no net access - manually update pacman?

#2 2010-12-03 09:46:29

Re: need to install packages with no net access - manually update pacman?

#3 2010-12-03 10:01:03

Re: need to install packages with no net access - manually update pacman?

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