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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Narendra Prasad Madanapalli |
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<narendramind@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am currently using prefix portage and still need some clarifications on |
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> the following |
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> Why do we need Prefix Portage insted of the combination of chroot+portage? |
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> For example, |
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> * set up chroot environment in /opt/myprefix |
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> * chroot /opt/myprefix |
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> * Install all necessary packages based on normal-portage inside it. |
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> Even though prefix-portage based s/w can be installed as normal user, admin |
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> previleges are required to start/stop servers inside the s/w. In this case |
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> chroot+normal portage is enough than prefix. |
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> And more over, chroot+normal-poragate can be used inside any directory of |
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> user choice. |
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No, that is incorrect, you need root access to use chroot. Assuming |
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you have root access, yea, a chroot might suit your needs better. |
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Additionally, please see some documented use cases already: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/usecases.xml |
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-Jeremy |
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> Can anybody please provide appropriate answers for the above so that I will |
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> be cleared and proceed with proper portage. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Narendra. |
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