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first off: at work we don't run Gentoo and this will not change. I |
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would however like to use Portage for stuff that the chosen |
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distribution doesn't supply, or just to keep more up to date |
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software available under, say, /portage (the ROOT name is |
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irrelevant, but it's not /usr or (/usr)/local). think of this a |
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good replacement for encap. |
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my first attempt was to make portage self-contained under this root, |
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using /portage/etc and similar structures. this I had to abandon |
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rather quickly, as /etc/make.conf and similar files are hardcoded to |
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be under /etc. |
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I then opted to keep a minimal set of files under /etc, but install |
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software under /portage. I proceeded to inject packages that I |
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didn't want portage to fiddle with -- something that worked as |
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expected. I then tried to upgrade portage[1] and got the following |
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error: |
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nommo:/# emerge -U world |
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portage: 'portage' user or group missing. Please update baselayout |
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and merge portage user(250) and group(250) into your passwd |
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and group files. Non-root compilation is disabled until then. |
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Also note that non-root/wheel users will need to be added to |
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the portage group to do portage commands. |
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For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group. |
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portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false |
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portage::250:portage |
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>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. |
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Calculating world dependencies ...done! |
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>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 to / |
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>>> md5 ;-) portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2 |
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Could not open the sandbox library at '(null)/libsandbox.so'. |
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the user and group warning would be nice to turn off by the way. |
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the real problem is the sandbox library which seems to be missing |
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its path. are there any good ideas on how to fix this? |
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and, if anyone has done anything similar, I'm all ears. if people |
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are interested in making different roots under portage just |
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work[tm], I might do some patching to portage and make the work |
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available. |
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[1] I based my Portage testing on the portage rescue image, which I |
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dumped on /portage and created a lot of symlinks on /usr to make |
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things work. installing portage on /usr is something I really |
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want to avoid, I _really_ wish for /portage to have everything |
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related to portage. :-/ |
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Terje |
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