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From: Matthew Cline <matthew.cline@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:10:12
Message-Id: ff4f69a00606020749ta1c81c1rb9db83f07586c705@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage by Iain Buchanan
1 On 6/1/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that
5 > just takes up space, such as /usr/portage.
6 >
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8 Depending on how much free space you have available, you could send a
9 copy of the portage tree along with the binary package. If you pack
10 /usr/portage into a squashfs, it only takes up about 25 megs. Mount
11 the image, install your binary package.
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15 HTH,
16
17 Matt
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