Re: [gentoo-user] Building a test system
On Friday 24 April 2009 12:14:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to make.conf. Which is the better option? Do it at the earliest possible opportunity. Otherwise you will emmerge world and update to a current stable system, then amend ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and update to a current unstable system, effectively rendering the first emerge world as completely useless. Don't listen to people who will tell you c...@p like starting with stable lets you find problems and fix them first. This is nonsense as once you start going unstable there is no going back, or at least no easy way to go back. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Building a test system
Hello list, I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to make.conf. Which is the better option? -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Building a test system
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:14:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to make.conf. Set it as soon as possible; ideally during the initial installation but right after the first boot at the latest. Then do emerge -uavDN world before you touch anything else. Doing it straight after the stage 3 unpack means you won't have to install, configure and compile a stable kernel, then repeat the whole process when you switch keywords. The same applies to changing USE flags. -- Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Building a test system
On Friday 24 April 2009 12:04:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:14:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to make.conf. Set it as soon as possible; ideally during the initial installation but right after the first boot at the latest. Then do emerge -uavDN world before you touch anything else. Doing it straight after the stage 3 unpack means you won't have to install, configure and compile a stable kernel, then repeat the whole process when you switch keywords. The same applies to changing USE flags. Thanks Neil, and Alan too. -- Rgds Peter
