"Albert W. Hopkins" <mar...@letterboxes.org> writes: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure >> there will be those who claim its `simple'. >> >> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. >> >> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) >> appliance available for download? >> >> > I maintain a quasi-daily build of a gentoo virtual appliance. It should > work with kvm, vmware, and virutalbox (and possibly xen?).
Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails at downloading gentoo-sources. Something about not being able to resolve the kernel URLS. I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to find where `portage' is on disc during that build. I wanted to attempt editing the ebuild but even with variable: REMOVE_PORTAGE_TREE NO I never find a `portage' directory. Once the build fails, their is no `portage' directory containing the tree. In virtual-appliance: find . -type d -name 'portage' ./vabuild/var/lib/portage ./vabuild/var/log/portage ./vabuild/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage ./vabuild/usr/lib/portage ./vabuild/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage None of those contain the tree. Here is tail of `sudo make' ,---- | Resolving www.fr.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known. | wget: unable to resolve host address “www.fr.kernel.org” | >>> Downloading 'http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2' | --2011-11-27 04:24:43-- http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2 | Resolving www.us.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known. | wget: unable to resolve host address “www.us.kernel.org” | !!! Couldn't download 'linux-3.1.tar.bz2'. Aborting. | * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file: | * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log' | | * Messages for package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1: | | * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file: | * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log' `---- I cannot ping any of those kernel urls. But kernel.org appears up ping kernel.org PING kernel.org (149.20.4.69) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pub2.kernel.org (149.20.4.69): icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=87.5 ms ls vabuild/var/tmp/ <empty> Apparently umounted or rm'd How to keep working portage tree accessible. I monkeyed around with your Makefile but couldn't follow it well enough to stop the umounting.
