[gentoo-user] Seeking advise for gentoo install/upgrade

2006-11-18 Thread Sathish Vasudevaiah
I have a bit of a situation as I plan to do upgrade/install gentoo for the following systems: (All these systems are currently running gentoo (2.6.11) with the portage snapshot of 20051009) System Processor./HW some info. [1] Cyrix c7 Runs myth

Re: [gentoo-user] building a binary distribution

2006-11-21 Thread Sathish Vasudevaiah
>You can make a chroot with a generic install for building binary >packages[2] and use it as a binhost[1]. Or you can use crossdev to >create an environment and use distcc[3] so your fast machine will >compile packages for you. I've used both and distcc seems a bit more >clean and transparent, whi