On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:02 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > Virtualbox should do it. Easy to maintain, easy to delete when your done. > It will create a virtual disk using space on your current system so no > requirement for a new drive. You can take images for backup if you ever > decide you need that.
Gentoo is very happy in a VB VM. Mark
