Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/02/2020 10:26, Dale wrote: >> I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting. Since it >> was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due >> to a mismatch in versions. [...] >> >> !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. >> !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. >> >> So, I have to emerge packages in order to emerge others. I get that >> packages depend on each other but is there a way around that? > You'd need to maintain two gentoo installs (A and B) with the same > exact configuration with B serving as the build machine. Then you'd > emerge the packages in B, make binary packages out of every package, > and then emerge those in A. > > >
Would a chroot work for that? I'm pretty sure it would but want to be certain before I set all that up. I'm pretty sure I can dig around and find a hard drive somewhere. While at it, I wouldn't want grub or anything to pick it up. Since grub does so much automatically, would it "detect" that install or would it ignore it? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
