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On 13/07/2013 06:49, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have recently purchased a cubieboard: |
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> http://cubieboard.org/ |
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> which is an ARM device with SATA. It is going to become a low power |
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> media server. I have followed the instructions on getting Gentoo onto it |
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> as outlined here: |
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> pluto7777.blogspot.com.au Monday March 18, 2013 |
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> I get a working system up and happening when I do the first boot. I then |
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> do the profile selection as listed but there are no server profiles, all |
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> basically desktop orientated. I chose 27 as suggested but when I do the |
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> emerge --pretend -NuD world |
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> I get an emerge that has over 250 items and includes things such as |
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> cups, libraries for image viewing etc etc, all stuff fine for a desktop |
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> but just additional stuff that my little server won't need. |
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> So my question is, what files do I have to fiddle to stop portage |
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> from wanting to install all of these additional files? I've looked in |
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> the world file and there is basically nothing there so I'm guessing it's |
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> in the profile somewhere - but just where? |
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At this point in the process, world is indeed empty or nearly empty, |
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nothing wrong with that. |
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profile definitions are in /var/portage/profiles, the one you are using |
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is the /etc/portage/make.conf symlink[1] |
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If you examine the files in those directories, you'll quickly see how |
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it's constructed - it's a tree structure, files have parents and have |
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entries to add and remove things. If you *really* want to, you can |
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define new profiles for yourself and store them anywhere convenient, as |
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a profile is really just some date files and pointers to other data |
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files. man 5 portage gives further details on what can be in each type |
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of file (type is indicated by name). |
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There are no more "server" profiles as such, that idea is deprecated. |
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Nowadays we have base profiles instead, like |
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default/linux/amd64/13.0 |
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and desktop variants like |
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default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop |
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It's most likely you have most desktop features enabled. Two approaches: |
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- Post the output of "eselect profile list" run as root |
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- Post the output of "emerge --info" | grep USE |
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[1] On your system the profiles might be in /usr/portage/profiles and |
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the symlink might be /etc/make.profile. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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