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On Oct 13, 2005, at 3:22 AM, Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> This is how I deal with it: |
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> * I never keep distfiles and binary packages in the /usr/portage |
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> (PKGDIR |
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> and DISTFILES in/etc/make.conf) and use portage snapshots. Then its |
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> possible to remove /usr/portage anytime and recover with just |
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> untarring |
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> the snapshot. This is use ful if you have several people working on |
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> the |
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> same project and you might want to work on the same portage tree. |
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Thanks, those are good suggestions. |
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> * Always enter in my chroot environment from a script. The script |
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> mounts |
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> proc and /usr/portage, chroot and then umounts everything again. |
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Yeah, I'm starting to do that. |
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Maybe just a note in the Howto warning users of the risk would be a |
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good idea. Then again, if you're building an embedded Linux system, |
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maybe you should be smart enough to know the risks. |
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-Josh |
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Joshua ChaitinPollak |
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