[gentoo-dev] New to Gentoo

[Bruce A. Locke]

Hello... I've been lurking around on the mailing list for probably over a
month now and have been playing around with Gentoo 1.0_rc4_pre2 under
vmware.  I would like to convert my Linux desktop machine and test box to
Gentoo and have a couple questions:

First, how does one successfully upgrade a default 1.0_rc4_pre2 install to
the newest version of portage?  I tried doing an rsync of the portage tree
then doing a ebuild merge but whenever I try to merge other packages, etc I
get weird python errors.  I saw the mention of a last minute python patch on
the mailing list and wonder if it is related.  How exactly have all of you
been upgrading to the latest portage versions? :)  Also I've seen mention of
work on autodependencies, etc... how far has that work progressed?

Second, is the ebuild file format now stable enough for people to start
package development?  is there a quick howto coming down the pipeline
explaining the system or is the only documention to RTFS? ;)

Third, I don't see any mention of DHCP in networking scripts.  Is there a
clean way to quickly implement DHCP client support in the existing scripts
without rm'ing the template eth0 example?

Thanks for your time...

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Bruce A. Locke
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