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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [Solaris] Gentoo Prefix Stage 3 package for Solaris 5.10
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:58
Message-Id: 20091110093201.GB16081@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [Solaris] Gentoo Prefix Stage 3 package for Solaris 5.10 by Markus Duft
1 On 10-11-2009 09:36:58 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
2 > and there are additional problems with chpathtool on some platforms. i
3 > investigated the whole thing a while ago, since i thought it would be
4 > great to (instead of distributing a whole big /opt/gentoo on windows)
5 > distribute my gentoo prefix installations split into binpkgs, where the
6 > user can decide which to install (much like cygwin does it). i back then
7 > also thought about letting the user decide where to install, thats why i
8 > was looking at chpathtool.
9 >
10 > however, the _only_ case where i had real success in changing EPREFIX,
11 > is when the new EPREFIX has the _exact_ same length as the old one.
12 > seems there is more work to be done one this (and: NO. it was not
13 > windows' fault (it most of the time is, i know), since i tried all this
14 > on linux ;p)
15
16 Weird, it worked on Solaris and Darwin for sure like a charm. Anyway,
17 this doesn't prevent you from using binpkgs, since you can simply use
18 the same offset, and then chpathtool isn't called at all.
19
20 But a backtrace is more than welcome.
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23 --
24 Fabian Groffen
25 Gentoo on a different level

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