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On Wednesday 12 October 2005 05:14 pm, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote: |
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> The Embedded Howto suggests mounting /proc and /usr/portage into the |
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> development root filesystem. Is mounting portage such a wise idea? |
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> Today, after having had a shell chrooted into the development |
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> environment for over a week, I decided to exit the shell, move the |
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> development environment out of the way, and create a new one. in the |
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> same location. I did: |
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> exit |
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> mv /opt/i586... /opt/i586....bak |
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> tar zxvf stage1-embedded -C /opt/i586.... |
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> And then for whatever reason: |
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> rm -rf /opt/i586.... |
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> Now, the problem is, I still had /usr/portage mounted on /opt/ |
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> i586..../usr/portage, and I guess mount points don't move when you |
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> move directories that contain them. |
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> The bottom line is, I blew away my host computer's /usr/portage, and |
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> now have to recover it. |
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> Since the development root filesystem is stored on a desktop machines |
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> harddrive, why not just have it get its own, separate portage tree? |
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> -Josh |
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> Joshua ChaitinPollak |
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> Software Engineer |
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> Kiva Systems |
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I'll add a section to the how-to that umounts everything and safely allows you |
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to delete your development_rootfs. |
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heath holcomb |
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