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On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 10:21:16 BST Zoltán Kócsi wrote: |
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> On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 09:25:41 +0200 |
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> Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > [...] |
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> > An example: I have a file /etc/portage/package.use/abix86 where I put |
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> > lines like these for packages I need installed in a 32-bit flavour (in |
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> > addition to the 64-bit my normal system uses): |
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> > dev-db/sqlite abi_x86_32 |
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> > dev-libs/glib abi_x86_32 |
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> > etc... |
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> Brilliant! Works like a charm. |
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> Now if someone could just tell me what to read so I understand what |
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> I'm doing. Please... I hate it when I don't know what's going on. |
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> Is there a detailed description on how portage works, what are these |
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> magic directories/files/variables? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Zoltan |
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The official Gentoo Documentation and Gentoo Wiki are valuable sources of |
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information and provide howto instructions for all sorts of setups. |
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For Portage I'd recommend you start from here: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Portage |
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then delve into more areas by navigating to them from the menu list on the |
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right titled "Working with Gentoo" and "Working with Portage". |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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