Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-19 Thread Alon Keren
Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm not sure why you want to do this or what your line of reasoning is. A stage 1 gentoo install is very similar to building LFS, except that you don't have to type './configure make sudo make install' 300 times. Well, conceptually similar at least. The whole point of LFS

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 9/19/06, Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm not sure why you want to do this or what your line of reasoning is. A stage 1 gentoo install is very similar to building LFS, except that you don't have to type './configure make sudo make install' 300 times. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/19/06, Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My aim is to have the ability to regularly build and maintain completely customized Linux systems. This should be possible by using your own local portage tree (probably based initially on Gentoo's tree) that you update somewhat manually with

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-19 Thread Alon Keren
On 9/19/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/06, Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My aim is to have the ability to regularly build and maintain completely customized Linux systems. This should be possible by using your own local portage tree (probably based initially on

[gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Alon Keren
Hi, I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). The little documentation online regarding such a feat, along with my little experience with Portage, means that I would have to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:05:21 + Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). Hm, that's what portage does, anyway... So what exactly do

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 September 2006 17:05, Alon Keren wrote: Hi, I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). I'm not sure why you want to do this or what your line of reasoning is. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Wu
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:50:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 17:05, Alon Keren wrote: Please CC me your replies as I'm not subscribed to messages from this list Nope. Asking that is exceptionally rude. I wade through 200+ messages per day looking for places I can