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On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> hi, |
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> i'm starting to feel a little frustated by the state of my current system: |
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> it has quite some misbehavior with stuff like permissions, orphaned files, |
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> packages built and still slotted (but are they really needed) and a great |
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> deal of static links that now are giving me a little headache. |
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> for this reason i've started to manually handle a little the cleaning of the |
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> system, but after some days of work i've arrived at the decision that a new |
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> rebuild from scratch might be an interesting idea. |
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> i haven't started it because it would take some days (about 10 days) to |
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> setup the system and i'm thinking of a world rebuild instead. |
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> now i'd like to ask you the following questions: |
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> 1. what options should i use to build a whole system that is not statically |
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> linked (all of xorg packages, a lot of other packages compile statically |
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> linked libraries)?! |
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> 2. is better to rebuild world and mantain the config files that i have now |
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> or to rebuild from scratch and then reconfigure?! |
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> 3. i'd like to use a cyphered lvm2 partition at least for /home. if i |
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> compile the system anew in a chroot on the actual system would i be able to |
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> put /home and eventually other stuff on cyphered partitions at the moment in |
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> which i would recopy the new system in its definite place (after the chroot |
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> new installation would be completed i'd put them in the actual place of the |
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> old one from a live cd via cp -a)? |
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> 4. live packages issues: i need (for the moment) to go with libdrm, x11-drm, |
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> mesa, mesa-glcore, dri2proto and xorg-server from git or be unable to run |
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> compiz-fusion on my board (x200m) and from all the tests i've been doing i |
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> cannot have this configuration to work with kde4 (i'm on svn branch). i like |
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> kde4, even if it has some stuff that isn't as good as it was on old 3.5.x, |
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> but my system continues to freeze when i try to run it with xorg-server from |
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> git. has anyone been able to have xorg-server live ebuild and kde4 to work?! |
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> i've looked in a lot of places on the web but haven't been able to find |
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> anyone with this configuration around. |
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> 5. it seems that synaptics and vesa xorg driver don't build on the live |
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> version of xorg-server and i was wondering if someone, instead, has had them |
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> working?! |
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> thanks a lot. |
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> -- |
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> dott. ing. beso |
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Just some general thoughts off the top of my head. My AMD64 Gentoo |
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system is the most stable of everything I run. |
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1) Mask >grub-0.97.r4 for now. |
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2) Add EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" to make.conf |
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2) eix-sync |
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3) eselect profile to 2008.0 |
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4) energe -ep system and look at flags. |
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5) emerge -e system |
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6) emerge -e system (yes, a second time, it's just an hour or two) |
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7) Unmask newest eix if necessary and then emerge eix |
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8) eix-sync |
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9) emerge -ep world and look at flags. Adjust as necessary. |
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10) emerge -DuN world |
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and enjoy. |
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At this point I'd look at eix-test-obsolete and clean things up. I'd |
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then run emerge -p --depclean and think about what it wants to do, and |
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probably do it because there will be things left over from before. |
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After that emerge -DuN world to check the depclean and |
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revdep-rebuild/eix-test-obsolete to find any last issues. |
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If that doesn't keep ya busy I have no idea what will. ;-) |
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Just some ideas, |
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Mark |
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