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Friday 02 June 2006 05:44 skrev Iain Buchanan: |
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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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> 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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> I would appreciate comments on how to make this work - maybe by just |
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> leaving an essential subset of /usr/portage. Note, that I know I won't |
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> be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage |
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> stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of |
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> each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD. |
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You could just exclude parts of the tree that you're not going to use thereby |
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minimizing the size of the tree... |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync |
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Bo Andresen |
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