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Nick Rout wrote: |
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> Thanks, so does the installer do a kind of quickpkg on the live system |
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> followed by emerge --usepkg inside the chroot? |
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The installer does a few "dirty" things to emulate portage like copying the |
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files for a particular package into the proper image dir in the chroot, |
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executing `ebuild` a few times with the proper arguments, and then merging the |
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files from the image dir into the "live" filesystem (the chroot directory). |
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> This is unfortunate because I have found the installer a little flaky. |
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> I'd prefer to do an install manually then be able to do emerge --usepkg |
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> against a directory full of packages. |
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Please file bugs (Gentoo Release Media -> Installer) for any of the problems |
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you've found with the installer. I can only fix them if someone tells me about them. |
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> Is there some way I can get the functionality you speak of? Is there |
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> somewhere in CVS I can look at? |
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You can fetch the latest CVS snapshot from my devspace. |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/ always has a link to the latest. Unpack the |
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snapshot, change to the src/ directory, and run './GLIPortage.py'. That's the |
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module that does most of the portage voodoo. I've added some code at the end to |
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allow it to run standalone to perform steps like creating the dynamic stage3 and |
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copying a particular package into a chroot. If you have more questions about it, |
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feel free to drop by #gentoo-installer. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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