Iain Buchanan wrote: >Hi all, > >I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that >just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. > >I made a binary package with quickpkg, to install (with emerge --usepkg) >on one of these PC's, but it complains about lots of stuff missing. > >So, if I want to do without /usr/portage, can I just install binary >packages by untarring them to / ? Or is there other essential stuff >that emerge does when you install a binary package? > >I would appreciate comments on how to make this work - maybe by just >leaving an essential subset of /usr/portage. Note, that I know I won't >be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage >stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of >each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD. > >thanks, > >
Could you put /usr/portage on a dvd and just mount it there? A dvd should hold a lot of source files. You could also use a NFS to access the files. Just put all the souce tarballs on one machine and share them with the rest. Just a idea. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
