Frank Peters wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:29:00 -0400 > Drake Donahue <donahu...@comcast.net> wrote: > >>> perhaps you like to go with a prefixed portage: >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ >>> >> >From http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/ebuilds/ >> >> Make a folder where you will store your own ebuilds >> >> mkdir -p /usr/local/portage >> >> and set that folder in /etc/make.conf: >> >> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage >> >> The folder structure in your overlay folder should be the same as found >> in /usr/portage. >> > > As I understand things, overlays could not be the answer because they > are intended only for packages outside of the standard portage tree. > I want to install some standard packages into an alternative location. > > But Prefix appears promising. I'll have to investigate. > > Can Prefix replace Portage entirely? That is, can Prefix be used > to maintain an ordinary Gentoo system in place of Portage? > no
> Since I would only want to relocate a relatively small number of packages, > another solution I am considering is to emerge with the option > --buildpkgonly to create a binary package. This package can then be > unpacked to the desired location. Also, sed can be used to change all > instances of /usr/lib64, /usr/include, etc., in the *.la and *.pc > files to the appropriate directory. The file package.provided would > also have to updated to inform portage that the package is actually > available. This may seem rather tedious, but a shell script could > automate the process. It may not be elegant, but it would work. > > Frank Peters >
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