On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:53:16PM +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Hi François-Xavier, > > What you're after is known as "Prefix/Stack", where you have some "base" > Prefix, which's portage does manage packages in another - stacked - Prefix. > > While this does work already with "Prefix/Guest" as base Prefix, there is no > technical reason to not work with "Prefix/Standalone" or even "Gentoo Linux" > as the base Prefix. The only problem maybe is that "Prefix/Guest" does use > a portage version with additional patches. > > But still, you can get an idea about how this works, using "Prefix/Guest": > > $ docker run -t -i gentooprefix/prefix-guest-64bit-fedora -c /bin/bash > > At the docker prompt: > > Enter the Guest Prefix preinstalled to /tmp/gentoo: > $ /tmp/gentoo/startprefix > > Set up your stacked Prefix: > $ prefix-stack-setup --eprefix=$HOME/stack > --profile=/tmp/gentoo/etc/portage/make.profile > Note that "~/stack" will not work here, bash refuses to resolve '~' after '='. > > Leave the Guest Prefix: > $ exit > > Enter your just created stacked Prefix: > $ ~/stack/startprefix > > Emerge your package, for example: > $ emerge sys-libs/zlib > > Have fun! > > HTH, > /haubi/ >
Thanks, this looks great! I'll play with it and see how it works :)
