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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Problem with ROOT
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:46:09
Message-Id: 1192656878.11164.20.camel@hangover.linbsd.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Problem with ROOT by Marc Blumentritt
1 On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:17 +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I use ROOT and PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT to install an embedded system. But
5 > when I want to install certain packages, they pull in dependencies in my
6 > build system. An example is attached below
7 > (ROOT="/mediamachine/devroot"). Is this normal and why is this happening?
8
9
10 All dependencies must be meet on the host system. If they are not you
11 will get alot of bogus stuff pulled into your ROOT.
12
13 This is why for ages I've been suggesting to people to first merge on /
14 then later using the -K option to sub merge into a new ROOT= so that
15 only the RDEPEND's will end up in $ROOT.
16
17 Good luck..
18
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21 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
22 Gentoo Linux
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