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Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes: |
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> Well, I would use a system that has a lot of disk space, and make a |
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> chroot build environment for those laptops. With FEATURES=buildpkg, |
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> you can then use a system you have full access to to build binary |
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> packages for the upgrade, and then when you have access, you can |
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> update quickly with --usepkgonly. |
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> The AMD 32-bit chroot guide [1] is useful here, even for non x86_64 systems: |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
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thanks to Bo, Alan, and Richard for the advice. I think this is going to |
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put off until the weekend so I can do several systems all at once, and have |
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a few days to deal with issues.... |
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thx, |
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