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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:11:23PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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>Nice to meet you :) |
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Thanks! |
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>> >Did you extract the tarball using the "p" option? --> |
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Well this time I did, and still multilog is whining. It's gonna irritate me |
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untill I fix it, I rebooted into my running system as I need to copy my |
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modules for my kernel (LVM and GFS modules needed to mount my former root |
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partition so I can get to the iso of gentoo to mount it with the loop device |
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:-) |
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I love this stuff. |
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>> Doh! Ooops. |
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>daemontools is very picky about directory permissions, so that's why your syslog |
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>was fried. It's easy to forget the "p" option since it's normally not used when |
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>extracting your typical source tarball. |
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Well, I did use the p option this time so I'm assuming something happend |
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before I untarred it. |
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>Unfortunately, I don't think you have "vi" at this point. Try grabbing the |
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>portage tree from your non-chrooted system, and then copy it to /usr/portage |
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>under your chrooted system. Then, add the CFLAGS that you want to |
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>/etc/make.conf and then one quick hack -- copy wget from your real system to |
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>/usr/bin on your Gentoo Linux system. We forgot to add that to build.tbz2. |
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>Then, create the /etc/resolv.conf and hosts files, and wget should then be |
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>able to download from the chrooted environment. At this point, Portage is |
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>ready for use. |
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I have vim actually. I do need to get the kernel recompiled with reiserfs |
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>You're ready to merge gcc, binutils, flex and all that good stuff (look for |
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>Achim's previous email for what needs to be remerged). Use the emerge program: |
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># emerge foo-1.0.ebuild |
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>To see what *would* be merged (without actually merging), use the --pretend option: |
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can I take all this stuff off the iso I downloaded? |
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># emerge --pretend foo-1.0.ebuild |
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>After merging the essentials (gcc, binutils, flex), make sure you merge the new |
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>1.5 version of Portage in sys-apps. |
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>Then, to install all essential packages on your system, type: |
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># emerge system |
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>This will cause everything in /usr/portage/sys-* to be merged automatically -- and |
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>in the proper order. Nearly everything (if not everything) should compile cleanly, |
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>though you may have a few problems since Achim is in the middle of upgrading to a |
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>new readline on CVS. Let us know your progress and we'll try to resolve any problems |
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>you have. |
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>After "emerge system" completes successfully, you should have a complete base Gentoo |
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>Linux system. |
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This is all great stuff to add to the installation guide! |
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>> Well, I rather like the fact that it's mostly hands-on stuff, and if I can get |
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>> the authentication thing straight I can hack the rest of it. |
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>> Ports man, I love it. Finally a distro with ports. |
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>you should be able to simply rename /etc/pam.d/userpadd to useradd, and things should |
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>work. |
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>Best Regards, |
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>-- |
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>Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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>President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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>Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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