On Monday 13 March 2006 01:44, David Guerizec wrote: > 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 ?
Not without CHROOT indeed. That's really really hard to do. And portage can't do it. Chroot works though, and it does not need to be a separate partition/disk. (though you can't boot from a directory .... well..... out of the box) Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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