[gentoo-server] Re: Building binary packages

[MIkey]

Thomas Schreiner wrote:

> That's why I was planning to build a binary package for mysql-4.1 on a
> second host in order to install it on my production server, but I could
> not find a list of common pitfalls to consider while building packages
> for a different host. These are the things that I can think of so far:

This is the only way I do packaging - I build all binary packages in a
chroot on the fastest box I can get my hands on.  In other words I use a
pentium4 workstation to build binaries for my PIII's, PII's, etc...

If you are interested the system I use is at:

http://badpenguins.com/source/gentoo-buildhoster

You can download the ebuild and stick it in an overlay.  There is a sample
tutorial.

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