On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > dott. ing. beso
Just some general thoughts off the top of my head. My AMD64 Gentoo system is the most stable of everything I run. 1) Mask >grub-0.97.r4 for now. 2) Add EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" to make.conf 2) eix-sync 3) eselect profile to 2008.0 4) energe -ep system and look at flags. 5) emerge -e system 6) emerge -e system (yes, a second time, it's just an hour or two) 7) Unmask newest eix if necessary and then emerge eix 8) eix-sync 9) emerge -ep world and look at flags. Adjust as necessary. 10) emerge -DuN world and enjoy. At this point I'd look at eix-test-obsolete and clean things up. I'd then run emerge -p --depclean and think about what it wants to do, and probably do it because there will be things left over from before. After that emerge -DuN world to check the depclean and revdep-rebuild/eix-test-obsolete to find any last issues. If that doesn't keep ya busy I have no idea what will. ;-) Just some ideas, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
