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On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:02 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > On 17/02/2020 10:26, Dale wrote: |
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> >> I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting. Since it |
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> >> was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due |
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> >> to a mismatch in versions. [...] |
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> >> |
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> >> !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. |
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> >> !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. |
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> >> So, I have to emerge packages in order to emerge others. I get that |
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> >> packages depend on each other but is there a way around that? |
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> > You'd need to maintain two gentoo installs (A and B) with the same |
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> > exact configuration with B serving as the build machine. Then you'd |
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> > emerge the packages in B, make binary packages out of every package, |
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> > and then emerge those in A. |
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> Would a chroot work for that? I'm pretty sure it would but want to be |
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> certain before I set all that up. I'm pretty sure I can dig around and |
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> find a hard drive somewhere. |
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> While at it, I wouldn't want grub or anything to pick it up. Since grub |
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> does so much automatically, would it "detect" that install or would it |
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> ignore it? |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> Virtualbox should do it. Easy to maintain, easy to delete when your done. |
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> It will create a virtual disk using space on your current system so no |
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> requirement for a new drive. You can take images for backup if you ever |
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> decide you need that. |
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Gentoo is very happy in a VB VM. |
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Mark |
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