[gentoo-server] Building binary packages

[Thomas Schreiner]

Hi,

my problem upgrading to mysql-4.1 is the downtime that I am going to get
while the new build completes.

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:

- appropriate make.conf, CFLAGS etc.
- right USE flags (or make.profile in general)
- same version of libraries / dependencies to prevent dynamic linking of
  libraries that don't exist on target host (that's going to be a hard one)

Is there a HowTo that lists all things to consider, or is it a
generally discouraged thing to build packages for another host if the hosts
are not 100% the same?

Thanks a lot

Thomas
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