Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote:
Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root
directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I
wouldn't even need to emerge -k...
No, I tried that and got myself tied in knots - well, actually it was the
whole portage tree that I exported, not the entire system. I forget what
went wrong now, but it's definitely cleaner to tell the server to build the
packages and the client to install from them. The emerge -k step is quick
too, and you have the advantage that you can see whether the packages are
actually there, unless you've switched colours off or not specified -v. (I
once found that they weren't there, which prompted me to go looking for the
config problem. Like Dale, I'm quite a good tester!)
You just have to make sure that the chroot is identical to the client.
Since you mentioned me. I wish I could set up a quicky from my 4 core
64 bit machine to compile 32 bit packages for a older 2GHz machine that
belongs to a friend. I was going to put Mandriva on it but the CD won;t
boot up properly. It stops at starting udev. Grrrrr.
How hard is it to set up a 64 bit machine to compile programs for a 32
bit system?
Dale
:-) :-)
