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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>Hi all, |
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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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>thanks, |
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Could you put /usr/portage on a dvd and just mount it there? A dvd |
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should hold a lot of source files. You could also use a NFS to access |
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the files. Just put all the souce tarballs on one machine and share |
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them with the rest. Just a idea. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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