Beso,
I am not sure if I can be much help, but I thought you might benefit
from my input for question 2.
I have rebuilt my system a few times, doing it both ways. After
experiencing the pain of reemerging world with the same configuration
files, I have ceased that method in favor of backing up my config files
and manually reconfiguring later. I just look at the things I have set
and set them again, not using diff or other merge utility. I find that
changes in syntax, etc. cause problems when compiling updated versions.
As for question 3, I thing you would be fine with building in a chroot
and then copying to the real system from a livecd. I would only suggest
2 things: make sure no files exist on the destination filesystem, to
avoid collisions, etc. and use rsync -aP instead of cp -a, as it gives a
progress indicator and can resume in case of a problem.
Hope this helps.
Dustin C. Hatch
theNeverFading
Beso wrote:
hi,
i'm starting to feel a little frustated by the state of my current
system: it has quite some misbehavior with stuff like permissions,
orphaned files, packages built and still slotted (but are they really
needed) and a great deal of static links that now are giving me a little
headache.
for this reason i've started to manually handle a little the cleaning of
the system, but after some days of work i've arrived at the decision
that a new rebuild from scratch might be an interesting idea.
i haven't started it because it would take some days (about 10 days) to
setup the system and i'm thinking of a world rebuild instead.
now i'd like to ask you the following questions:
1. what options should i use to build a whole system that is not
statically linked (all of xorg packages, a lot of other packages compile
statically linked libraries)?!
2. is better to rebuild world and mantain the config files that i have
now or to rebuild from scratch and then reconfigure?!
3. i'd like to use a cyphered lvm2 partition at least for /home. if i
compile the system anew in a chroot on the actual system would i be able
to put /home and eventually other stuff on cyphered partitions at the
moment in which i would recopy the new system in its definite place
(after the chroot new installation would be completed i'd put them in
the actual place of the old one from a live cd via cp -a)?
4. live packages issues: i need (for the moment) to go with libdrm,
x11-drm, mesa, mesa-glcore, dri2proto and xorg-server from git or be
unable to run compiz-fusion on my board (x200m) and from all the tests
i've been doing i cannot have this configuration to work with kde4 (i'm
on svn branch). i like kde4, even if it has some stuff that isn't as
good as it was on old 3.5.x, but my system continues to freeze when i
try to run it with xorg-server from git. has anyone been able to have
xorg-server live ebuild and kde4 to work?! i've looked in a lot of
places on the web but haven't been able to find anyone with this
configuration around.
5. it seems that synaptics and vesa xorg driver don't build on the live
version of xorg-server and i was wondering if someone, instead, has had
them working?!
thanks a lot.
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dott. ing. beso
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