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--- On Tue, 19/1/10, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Date: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 15:10 |
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> Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@×××××.com> |
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> writes: |
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> > Hi guys, |
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> > I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest |
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> trunk version |
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> > of the smartmontools drive database. |
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> > Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? |
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> I have spoken |
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> > to the chaps there and they say to run configure with |
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> > '--enable-drivedb' and then copy over the the current |
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> SVN version of |
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> > drivedb.h to DATADIR/smartmontools |
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> > But i wonder where this fits into the wonderful world |
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> of gentoo and |
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> > package management/ |
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> First... is the svn version really different than the |
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> ~<ARCHITECTURE> |
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> version on portage?.. that is version 5.39 |
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> You can get that version by putting an tilde followed by |
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> your machine |
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> architecture (on the cmd line if you don't want to run as |
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> development |
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> version always) otherwise in /etc/make.conf |
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> for x86 it would look like: |
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> ~x86 |
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> Then you can add you configure argument (--enable-drivedb) |
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> using the |
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> EXTRA_ECONF flag. Which will tell gentoo to use that |
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> flag at |
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> `./configure' time. |
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> |
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> So the emerge command line would be something like this: |
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> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-drivedb' \ |
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> emerge -v smartmontools |
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> (all on one line would be best) |
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> Now if you really need to introduce drivedb.h from svn |
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> repostory then |
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> you will need to go the overlay route... I |
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> think. Someone more |
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> knowledgable will be able to correct me .. I'm sure. |
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> That process involves installing your own separate portage |
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> in some |
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> other directory (/usr/local/portage) and using ebuild |
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> commands to |
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> build your own version. |
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> You would need to install `layman' for starters |
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> In that case you could introduce any commands or files you |
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> like, and |
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> process them with `ebuild'. |
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> The process is not all that hard, but I better leave an |
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> explanation of |
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> how to do it to someone here who is more familiar with it. |
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> I've done it but only rarely... and last time was a while |
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> ago. |
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Hi, |
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Thanks for your input! Wow that is alot more complicated that I had hoped! |
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I am already using the masked version of Smartmontools but the 5.39 version does not include 1 of the HDD I use and as I have got a whole load more of that exact model of drive on the way I would like it to. I have emailed the smartmontools maintainers and they added the drive 5 days ago, and hence is in the svn version. Hence me wanting to get the latest version of the drive DB. |
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