Michael Crute wrote:
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
to put it politely, this how-to is misleading. It should be removed.
problem 1: assumes automounter works. I was not able to get automounter
to function and had to resort to normal NFS mounts. I verified with a
few people outside of the Linux community that automounter is
problematic no matter who's you use.
problem 2: does not tell you which directories to create. I've had to
determine that experimentally as I've gone along. I'll probably
document on the second machine install.
Problem 3: inadequate chroot environment set up. As a result, Shell
scripts that should run chrooted don't. In fact, they just don't run.
that is as far as I've gotten. Until I solved the chroot problem, I'm
pretty well stopped.
I think this how-to is a good example of a really bad how to. Yes it is
perfectly acceptable to say go look here when dealing with something
essential to the how-to that was previously documented. But you must
put the reference to other documentation in context including context
specific debugging sequences. That would have saved me hours with the
automounter because I would have known to to quit far earlier and gone
to a more reliable system (assuming NFS is reliable).
as I solve problems, I will probably post the documentation here.
---eric
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