On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:50, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:29, Neil Stone wrote: > > OK, I have managed to get my gentoo system in to a rather wierd state... > > I will be rebuilding it shortly (several apps installed that fail to > > work now etc..) > > > > Is there anything wrong with building on a separate disk, in the same > > machine using chroot ? > > There shouldn't, unless you used some strange bind mounts. (bind > mounting /dev, /sys, /usr/portage, and /proc is ok. (If you build binary > packages, and it is a 32bit chroot, put them somewhere else). Even building > in a subdirectory works (I've done it often enough).
I'm curious to know how you built a new system in a subdirectory without chroot. Can you share your experience or a pointer ? Regards, David > Paul -- [email protected] mailing list
