[sclug] I have Gentoo! :)

[Andy Arbon]

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This might be a little late to suggest this (sorry, I forgot to mention
it earlier), but if you make sure you have buildpkg in your FEATURES
(set in /etc/make.conf) then Portage will build a binary package (a tar
of the installation directory before it is merged with the real
filesystem) of each package it compiles.

This could be useful if you do something stoopid as we all do sometimes
when we have a new toy to fiddle with and wipe out something important.
You would then be able to use 'emerge --usepkg' to reemerge the package
(or the entire system if you so wanted) from the binary and avoid the
whole compilation process. Ofcourse, you get the same USE flags etc as
you used when you compiled the package originally.

Other tools you should familiarise yourself with (atleast so you realise
that they are available the first time that you need them) are ufed,
which is a nice USE flag selector that lists all the possible flags and
tells you what they do, and qpkg, which can tell you lots of things
about your system and the packages installed on it.

Oh, and if you emerge a new version of GCC and everything stops working,
type ldconfig before panicking. If you do that and everything still
doesn't work, then panic. That one caught me out a week or so ago ;)

Cheers,

Andy


Ian Michell wrote:
| Finally after waiting forever for my gentoo system to build, I can say I
| have finally managed to do it :) I still don't have X (building at the
| moment), but the fact that I have it makes me happy :)
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