Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2006-04-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan LaMotte wrote: anyone know if you can compile something locally into your home directory using portage without being root? basically what I want to accomplish is like... ROOT=/home/lamotte/compile emerge openssh or ebuild

[gentoo-user] portage question

2006-04-20 Thread Dan LaMotte
anyone know if you can compile something locally into your home directory using portage without being root? basically what I want to accomplish is like... ROOT=/home/lamotte/compile emerge openssh or ebuild /path/to/ebuild/ merge I would basically like to be able to install something without

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Crossman
Thanks Holly. I understand it better now. On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Eric Crossman schreef: Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about using portage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall under the used to work category.

[gentoo-user] portage question

2005-10-05 Thread Eric Crossman
Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about using portage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall under the used to work category. In the past, I've used a emerge system and emerge world to update to newer versions of installed software. Usually also with a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/5/05, Eric Crossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about usingportage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall under the used to work category.In the past, I've used a emerge system and emerge world to update tonewer versions

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2005-10-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric Crossman schreef: Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about using portage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall under the used to work category. In the past, I've used a emerge system and emerge world to update to newer versions of installed

[gentoo-user] Portage question...

2005-09-14 Thread Yann GARNIER
Hi all, I did an emerge -vuD world last week and, among other thing, it updated GCC from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 (which seemed to be a good thing..) Today after an emerge --sync I wanted to re-update my system ... and I'm wondering why portage 'wants' to downgrade my version of GCC from 3.3.6 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question...

2005-09-14 Thread James Colby
Yann - I'm not sure about the downgrade from 3.3.6 to 3.3.5, but I had the same problem with libungif. I fixed it by unmerging giflib (emerge --ask --unmerge media-libs/giflib). Then re-running the update, which actually re-installed giflib for me. HTHOn 9/14/05, Yann GARNIER [EMAIL PROTECTED]