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On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:14:38 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that |
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> just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. |
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> I made a binary package with quickpkg, to install (with emerge --usepkg) |
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> on one of these PC's, but it complains about lots of stuff missing. |
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It would, if you have no portage tree. |
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> So, if I want to do without /usr/portage, can I just install binary |
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> packages by untarring them to / ? Or is there other essential stuff |
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> that emerge does when you install a binary package? |
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That depends on the ebuild. Check to see if it has any preinst or |
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postinst instructions. If so, you'll have to arrange for these to be |
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handled manually. Apart fro that, you should be able to unpack the |
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tarball to /. You can safely ignore the error from tar about trailing |
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garbage, portage tacks environment information onto the end of the tar. |
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Rather than use quickpkg, it would probably be better to add buildpkg to |
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FEATURES on the build box. That way you'll get the packages built |
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automatically. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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