On Friday 20 February 2015 06:51:49 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Another approach will be to use one powerful box to build all > packages for an older system: either root filesystem may be > exported via NFS to a powerful host or just copy entire disk image > to and fro that host; afterwards just setarch && chroot to that > image / NFS mount and build all packages using modern hardware.
I've found it simpler to NFS-export just the package directory to the more powerful host, not the whole file system. Then SSH to the small box and emerge -k. I forget the details now, but I rarely have to fiddle about fixing problems since adopting this procedure. -- Rgds Peter.
