Re: [gentoo-amd64] new clean rebuild

[Dustin C. Hatch]

Beso,

I am not sure if I can be much help, but I thought you might benefit 
from my input for question 2.

I have rebuilt my system a few times, doing it both ways. After 
experiencing the pain of reemerging world with the same configuration 
files, I have ceased that method in favor of backing up my config files 
and manually reconfiguring later. I just look at the things I have set 
and set them again, not using diff or other merge utility.  I find that 
changes in syntax, etc. cause problems when compiling updated versions.

As for question 3, I thing you would be fine with building in a chroot 
and then copying to the real system from a livecd. I would only suggest 
2 things: make sure no files exist on the destination filesystem, to 
avoid collisions, etc. and use rsync -aP instead of cp -a, as it gives a 
progress indicator and can resume in case of a problem.

Hope this helps.

Dustin C. Hatch
theNeverFading


Beso wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm starting to feel a little frustated by the state of my current
> system: it has quite some misbehavior with stuff like permissions,
> orphaned files, packages built and still slotted (but are they really
> needed) and a great deal of static links that now are giving me a little
> headache.
> for this reason i've started to manually handle a little the cleaning of
> the system, but after some days of work i've arrived at the decision
> that a new rebuild from scratch might be an interesting idea.
> i haven't started it because it would take some days (about 10 days) to
> setup the system and i'm thinking of a world rebuild instead.
> now i'd like to ask you the following questions:
>
> 1. what options should i use to build a whole system that is not
> statically linked (all of xorg packages, a lot of other packages compile
> statically linked libraries)?!
> 2. is better to rebuild world and mantain the config files that i have
> now or to rebuild from scratch and then reconfigure?!
> 3. i'd like to use a cyphered lvm2 partition at least for /home. if i
> compile the system anew in a chroot on the actual system would i be able
> to put /home and eventually other stuff on cyphered partitions at the
> moment in which i would recopy the new system in its definite place
> (after the chroot new installation would be completed i'd put them in
> the actual place of the old one from a live cd via cp -a)?
> 4. live packages issues: i need (for the moment) to go with libdrm,
> x11-drm, mesa, mesa-glcore, dri2proto and xorg-server from git or be
> unable to run compiz-fusion on my board (x200m) and from all the tests
> i've been doing i cannot have this configuration to work with kde4 (i'm
> on svn branch). i like kde4, even if it has some stuff that isn't as
> good as it was on old 3.5.x, but my system continues to freeze when i
> try to run it with xorg-server from git. has anyone been able to have
> xorg-server live ebuild and kde4 to work?! i've looked in a lot of
> places on the web but haven't been able to find anyone with this
> configuration around.
> 5. it seems that synaptics and vesa xorg driver don't build on the live
> version of xorg-server and i was wondering if someone, instead, has had
> them working?!
>
> thanks a lot.
>
> --
> dott. ing. beso
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