Friday 02 June 2006 05:44 skrev Iain Buchanan: > I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that > just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. > > I made a binary package with quickpkg, to install (with emerge --usepkg) > on one of these PC's, but it complains about lots of stuff missing. > > So, if I want to do without /usr/portage, can I just install binary > packages by untarring them to / ? Or is there other essential stuff > that emerge does when you install a binary package? > > I would appreciate comments on how to make this work - maybe by just > leaving an essential subset of /usr/portage. Note, that I know I won't > be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage > stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of > each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD.
You could just exclude parts of the tree that you're not going to use thereby minimizing the size of the tree... http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync -- Bo Andresen
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