| 1 |
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
| 2 |
> On 17/02/2020 10:26, Dale wrote: |
| 3 |
>> I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting. Since it |
| 4 |
>> was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due |
| 5 |
>> to a mismatch in versions. [...] |
| 6 |
>> |
| 7 |
>> !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. |
| 8 |
>> !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. |
| 9 |
>> |
| 10 |
>> So, I have to emerge packages in order to emerge others. I get that |
| 11 |
>> packages depend on each other but is there a way around that? |
| 12 |
> You'd need to maintain two gentoo installs (A and B) with the same |
| 13 |
> exact configuration with B serving as the build machine. Then you'd |
| 14 |
> emerge the packages in B, make binary packages out of every package, |
| 15 |
> and then emerge those in A. |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Would a chroot work for that? I'm pretty sure it would but want to be |
| 22 |
certain before I set all that up. I'm pretty sure I can dig around and |
| 23 |
find a hard drive somewhere. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
While at it, I wouldn't want grub or anything to pick it up. Since grub |
| 26 |
does so much automatically, would it "detect" that install or would it |
| 27 |
ignore it? |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Thanks. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
Dale |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
:-) :-) |
Archives