On 12/9/05, Billy Holmes <billy@...> wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > (Pardon my butting in, Billy; I thought my experience might help Mark.)
>
> no worries! What you said is pretty much on target except for the
> distfiles, but as Duncan said, if you run a distfile cleaner it will
> clean out the original tarball, however, the ebuild *should* download
> the tarball from my site if it's not in distfiles.
>
> I should probably edit the patch and make it default to /mnt/gentoo32.
>
> Do you all think that would be the default that everyone uses? I setup
> my chroot over a year ago, and I don't think the chroot handbook was
> around then.
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Hi all,
   Sorry for the delay responding. I'm back as of yesterday from my
class and starting to use my Gentoo AMD64 machine with it's chrooted
environment more intensely. Things are progressing pretty nicely:

Billy - I would agree with a default of /mnt/gentoo32 for now, just to
match the manual.

1) Everything seems to work fine so far as root. I have Firefox, Java,
Flash and mplayer all working nicely. I can browse the web pages I
need to and play the wmv video training files and do the exercises
just fine.

2) As a user, and using Peter's outline of how to fix my l32 setup, I
am now able to get to the chrooted environment as a user. Thanks
Peter! Note that I set it up as Peter suggested with the tar file in
/usr/local/portage/distfiles. I take it from reading the rest of this
thread that this is not required?

3) Ar root in the  chrroted environment I am not able to emerge vim
successfully:

lightning ~ # emerge -pv vim

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/vim-6.4  -acl -bash-completion -cscope
+gpm -minimal +nls +perl +python -ruby -vim-with-x 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #

will fail like this:

config.status: creating auto/config.h
make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/vim-6.4/work/vim64/src'
CC="i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -O2
-march=athlon-xp -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer   -pipe
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm 
-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux/CORE  -I/usr/include/python2.4
-pthread   " srcdir=. sh ./osdef.sh
mkdir objects
make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vim-6.4/work/vim64/src'
make: *** empty string invalid as file name.  Stop.
 * If the above messages seem to be talking about perl
 * and undefined references, please try re-emerging both
 * perl and libperl with the same USE flags. For more
 * information, see:
 *     https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18129

!!! ERROR: app-editors/vim-6.4 failed.
!!! Function vim_src_compile, Line 516, Exitcode 0
!!! emake failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

lightning ~ #

I'm not clear what USE flags this message says should be the same.
Possibly I should remove the perl flag from vim???

lightning ~ # emerge -pv vim perl libperl

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/vim-6.4  -acl -bash-completion -cscope
+gpm -minimal +nls +perl +python -ruby -vim-with-x 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r8  +berkdb -build -debug -doc
+gdbm -ithreads -minimal -perlsuid 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6-r1  +berkdb -debug +gdbm -ithreads 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #

4) OK, after chrooting into the new environment (l32 /bin/bash) I can
run Firefox, but I'm surprised to see that I have all my bookmarks
from the 64-bit environment. Is this correct?

5) Probably most important, I do not have a user account in the
chrooted environment yet. I've found a couple of wiki's about doing
this but they seem contradictory so I'm taking that slowly. The lack
of the /home/mark directory seems to get in the way of pretty basic
stuff:

mark@lightning / $ java-config -L
[blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02] "Blackdown JRE 1.4.2.02"
(/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02)
[blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02] "Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.02"
(/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02) *
mark@lightning / $ java-config -s blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02
jc_options: Cannot write to ${HOME}
mark@lightning / $

If I create the directory by hand I suspect I'll create problems.

6) I am not sure I'm happy with the way the wiki set up my chrooted
environment. From the 64-bit environment I now see:
mark@lightning ~ $ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              9614148   8224572    901200  91% /
udev                    255204       292    254912   1% /dev
/dev/sda6              3850292   1437408   2217296  40% /usr/src
/dev/sda7             11543016   1773832   9182816  17% /mnt/gentoo32
shm                     255204         0    255204   0% /dev/shm
none                    255204         0    255204   0% /tmp/jack
/dev                    255204       292    254912   1% /mnt/gentoo32/dev
/dev/shm                255204         0    255204   0% /mnt/gentoo32/dev/shm
/usr/portage           9614148   8224572    901200  91%
/mnt/gentoo32/usr/portage
/tmp                   9614148   8224572    901200  91% /mnt/gentoo32/tmp
myth14:/video        225373664 120268192  93657152  57% /video

It seems these mount -bind steps have hidden my normal disk partitions....


   Anyway, that's my quick status. Thanks in advance for all your help.

Cheers,
Mark

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