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On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT) |
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Daddy <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> We have spare parts so tomorrow I'll build a test machine. My Gentoo |
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> knowledge is quite limited, seeing as how we moved back after 9 years |
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> and had to start life over. But I can start by following this guide, |
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> and probably reading and learning about ebuilds. They're quite |
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> different from Slackware's build scripts, primarily due to dependency |
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> checking, etc. |
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Once you've got the hang of building a Gentoo system from scratch, the |
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best thing you can do is read all the man pages from portage and seeing |
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how that compares to what's in simple ebuilds. |
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ebuilds are quite straightforward, they all have a "global" section (my |
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phrase) defining various constants, and code sections for fetching, |
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unpacking, compiling, installing sources and the files to the live |
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system. Quite simple in concept. |
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The fun starts when ebuilds work fine and the dev's machine and get |
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published, but don;t do quite the same thing on your machine :-) |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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