Re: [gentoo-dev] Long Time No See

"Jerry A!" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:44:34PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> : Ok, build.tbz2 contains
> : glibc-2.2.2/gcc-2.95.3/binutils-2.10.91.0.2/spython/portage and
> : some other packages that are required for a compile environment.
> : It requires 55MB at the moment. The idea is to unpack it to a new
> : partition or a subdir. Then you mount your portage tree on that
> : locations usr/portage dir (hope you have the portage tree on a
> : separate partition). Then you can edit the make.conf settings and
> : chroot to the build environment. Now you can start building everything
> : from scratch. First you must merge gettext which is required for
> : native language support by the following packages. Next you can build
> : and merge binutils and gcc for your host settings. Now you can build
> : and merge glibc. After that you must merge flex because the package in
> : the build system does not contains libfl and some headers. Since there
> : are no other libs in the build tarball as the ones from glibc and flex
> : you can now be sure that everything is linked agains the new build
> : libs.
> :
> : But in your situation it may cause problems that you do not use
> : glibc-2.2.2 (what glibc are you using?)
>
> I was planning on wiping the box and reinstalling from scratch.  I would
> just like to make sure that after a fresh install I can rebuild
> *everything* with my particular preferences.  I was thinking of doing  a
> chicken-egg bootstrap (like so):
>
>     edit make.conf
>     rebuild/reinstall gcc
>     rebuild/reinstall glibc and binutils
>     rebuild/reinstall everything else
>
> The only problems I see with this setup are how to get glibc and
> binutils installed.  I figure I can just create packages and drop them
> on top of what's currently there (the contents will be the same, so I
> don't see a conflict).
You can use ebuild in the same way in the build env as on your running
system. If you have enoght space
you can build and merge all packages you have currently installed with
the actuall versions to the build-env and copy that over or you can make
packages maybe you can even use /usr/portage/tmp as your portage
temporary dir so you can build chrooted and merge on the running
system..

But I'm wondering if there are cleaner/nicer
> ways to acheive my goals.

Any ideas? I'm currently happy with the fact that I can change host
settings and glibc in one step. Why don't you merge everything you have
currently installed with the most actual version in/on the build-env and
use this as your new runtime partition?

achim

>
> But it seems like it'll be cleaner to just chroot and make a new
> build.tbz2 and drop that on top of everything else.  Am I mistaken in
> this assessment?
>
>         --Jerry
>
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