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On Monday 13 March 2006 01:44, David Guerizec wrote: |
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> On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:50, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:29, Neil Stone wrote: |
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> > > OK, I have managed to get my gentoo system in to a rather wierd |
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> > > state... I will be rebuilding it shortly (several apps installed |
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> > > that fail to work now etc..) |
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> > > |
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> > > Is there anything wrong with building on a separate disk, in the |
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> > > same machine using chroot ? |
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> > There shouldn't, unless you used some strange bind mounts. (bind |
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> > mounting /dev, /sys, /usr/portage, and /proc is ok. (If you build |
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> > binary packages, and it is a 32bit chroot, put them somewhere else). |
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> > Even building in a subdirectory works (I've done it often enough). |
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> I'm curious to know how you built a new system in a subdirectory |
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> without chroot. Can you share your experience or a pointer ? |
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Not without CHROOT indeed. That's really really hard to do. And portage |
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can't do it. Chroot works though, and it does not need to be a separate |
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partition/disk. (though you can't boot from a directory .... well..... |
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out of the box) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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