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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 21:08, Jarry wrote: |
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> Brian Davis wrote: |
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> > What are these buying the OP over chroot for what he wants to do? |
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> Sometimes chrooting is not so easy. I tried it for |
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> apache + mysql + php + some cgi-scripts, and it did not work. |
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> I have spent over month with it, and still a lot of things |
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> were broken, libraries/links missing, etc. |
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I feel your pain :-) |
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Make life easy for yourself, and do what I'm doing to get a proprietary |
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app running on glibc-2.5 that was linked against glibc-2.3: |
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create a full blown chroot with it's own portage tree. I'm adapting the |
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32 bit chroot on AMD64 howto to my needs (and keeping an eye on the |
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stage 3 install handbook as well). You do this: |
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mount -o bind the various bogo file systems as per the AMD64 howto, and |
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extract a stage 3 tarball into it. Select a minimal profile like |
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default-linux/x86/2006.1/server, mask any packages you know you need to |
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lock to certain versions and 'emerge apache mysql php'. Let portage |
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figure out the libs and stuff, you have better things to do with your |
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time. |
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True, you do end up with 300M more disk space consumed than you would |
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like, but weigh that up against the cost of a month of struggling and |
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it's a no-brainer. |
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It turns out to be a lot easier than one would think. I'm almost done |
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and it's taken me about three hours. I reckon anyone who knows portage |
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well enough to keep a ~arch gentoo box up for three months should |
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breeze through it |
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alan |
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